ParísTombuctú

The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris is unbearable he has a wife whom he does not love a son who is foreign to him and friends whom he despises but at the same time he is incapable of taking his own life One day he buys a bike from a bizarre cyclist who was to make the ParisTimbuktu route and sets out to make the journey then Timbuktu becomes for him the Promised Land