I'm Off And One Year

I'm Off"I'm off," says FTlix Ferrer to his wife. "I'm leaving you." Thus 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 Inuit 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 YearVictoire wakes up one morning to find her boyfriend lying dead beside her.

Not wanting to be caught with a 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