"I'm off I'm off," says Felix Ferrer to his wife. "I'm leaving you." hus Ferrer, a creature of appetite, impulse and habit, a man of our times, embarks on a journey to the extremes. After making for the frozen North Pole in pursuit of a rare cargo of Inui artifacts, he is now back in his atelier in a Paris packed with ex-girlfriends, anxious artists and suspicious creditors, and beginning to feel very hot indeed... One Year ictoria wakes up one morning to find her boyfriend lying dead beside her. ot wanting to be caught with corpse, she packs her bags, raids her bank account and makes off, randomly, for the Southwest. And, when she has lost her belongings, her money, her looks and almost her self - one year later - the coast is clear for her to come back to Paris. But nothing prepares her for the shock of what greets her return."