As literature professor Aline waits for a train in Paris, the repressed second self she has long suppressed breaks free and enters the body of the young man Lucien. The novel is a witty, fantastical exploration of gender, desire, and split identity.

Another self begins to move in another body.

Tracing roughly twenty-five years from 1969 to 1995, the narrator looks back on his years inside a Maoist organization and on the drift that followed. It is an autobiographical novel where political history and private memory overlap.

From revolutionary fervor to a long drift.