Tous les soleils

Alessandro teaches musicology at the university of Strasbourg He is also a volunteer reader in hospitals He shares his apartment with his daughter 15yearold Irina and his anarchist brother Luigi Life is not always rosy at Alessandros for three main reasons he is a widower and has never really recovered from the death of his young wife his brother is some kind of parasite who refuses to sell his paintings to capitalist speculators and so to contribute to the cost of the household Irina whom he has raised alone since she was five months old and always felt close to is rapidly changing from little girl to teenager and wishes to be treated as such One day Florence a beautiful young woman gets into Alessandros life Will he eventually take his chances with her And will he manage to stop stifling Irina And will he finally get on with Luigi