Delphine goes lovers Denis do apparently

There are traditions it is better to give up before it's too late: the weekend of July 14 between friends in Coutainville (Manche), for example. Since sixteen years, Delphine and Denis invite their closest friends to spend a few days together between edge of sea and Acro circle, part of tennis and trays of seafood. With for final bouquet, the municipal fireworks on the beach.

Denis, fifty-five years, is the band alpha male. Rich, sports, enterprising, "infallible" in the eyes of some, he formed with Delphine, forty years, a couple bright.

Brilliant but in war. Delphine goes lovers, Denis do, apparently. An attitude which suggests that he also, perhaps, was his small arrangements. Business - it is CEO of a company of telecommunications-l' take often abroad. His secret garden Regularly, it is going to retirement, alone, to the bottom of the desert. But this weekend, the hatchet is raised.

In this small tribe clicked on the Sautet, there is also Marie and Nicolas, 50 past. Him, Denis childhood friend, is ate by crises of anxiety since a dramatic event that occurred in the periphery of his life as Professor and eroding the conviction. She, more than intermittent actress has endured a recent trauma: it was suggested a role of grandmother in a film. She who was considerably younger in casting thinks any map.

Lola, finally, thirty-eight years ago, and her young lover of the time, Samuel, twenty-six years, which starts fire all flame in the business of communication. Former great war reporter, Hothead and large consumer of men, Lola stopped travelling across the planet to produce a broadcast of radio consacrée (x) silence (s). Samuel is in love at wanting the request in marriage on the beach at the end of the Fireworks, with baby in option proposal. And this despite warnings conjugates Denis and Nicolas who know their Lola on the fingertips.

As the hours is Gin cotton, the situation apart before our eyes. In this subtle chemistry that form couples and families, the element that will precipitate events is called Dimitri. With a strange physics but not without charm, its presence, even quiet, flat as a threat to the small band. Its enigmatic phrases seem heavy innuendo, which will come to awaken the guilt, the bad conscience or the fantasies with one and other. For their part, Denis and his wife are concerned to see approaching too close to their daughter, Jeanne, sixteen years old, who is not indifferent to its attention. In whisper, it commented on lies, predictions, the assumptions of this bird of misfortune that they try to hunt their minds so that "nothing Vienna remind them of their lives in balance and the lies that they had posed above same to fine covers of survival". However, "at the bottom of each of them, and they had good the push with force, illuminated the fine light of fear, by intervals, as a light bulb to snapping.". "A signal, almost nothing to prevent the danger."

"That summer" is may be less challenging than the previous novel by Véronique Olmi, "The first love", released in January 2010. The pen is sometimes lazy and denouement leaves us somewhat in abeyance. Despite these flaws, this weekend too to the sea is under Ivy charm. With subtlety, Véronique Olmi tie and breaking the fragile son of our lives. That the parks as we know, can decide with a single stroke of scissors.