They said we’d walk on the Moon, they said that by the year 2000 we’d be driving around in flying cars. There was talk of an Aerotrain capable of breaking all speed records.
But how can you take part in all this when, like Gino, you live in the depths of a village in the Orléanais region, when your report card is at half-mast, when you’re wondering how to seduce Roxane, the girl you met at the village ball years earlier?
Gilles Marchand, always faithful to his quirky characters, offers us a poetic journey through the Thirty Glorious by a young idealist, his head full of dreams bigger than himself, witnessing a world in acceleration where happiness for all seemed within reach.
