Gilbert Perez is a confidence trickster of the first rank. Armed with
his mobile phone and an unerring capacity to pull the wool over the eyes
of others, he can't help swindling his victims out of thousands of euros.
His career of crime has become a drug to him - every success stimulates a
craving for yet more victories over the greedy and gullible. His dream
is to provide his wife Barbara with a normal life, but his wild fraudulent
escapades will soon lead him to ruin...
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.