Désertion

Two men in their forties, in a rented country house, are having breakfast. They have deserted, abandoned their wives, children and jobs, in an attempt to find meaning in their lives. But who are they? What do they still have to achieve? How can they avoid dying before they've met themselves? So many questions that torment them, in what we guess is a rather successful professional and amorous life, at any rate, far from material worries.%%%For this retreat, this desertion, they have set themselves rules, a hygiene of body and mind that should be the ferment of their rebirth. Various activities: walking, reading, gardening, meditation and a ban on the presence of women to avoid the temptation of one-night stands. They've been here a fortnight, maybe three weeks, and this cohabitation, this accumulation of rituals, is beginning to weigh on them. Without admitting it, they feel they have recreated a prison, a couple as oppressive, if not more so, than the one they fled with their respective wives.