When Philip arrived at Andrew’s that evening, it had been thirteen years since the two half-brothers had seen each other. A love rivalry had driven them apart. The old suitcase that Philippe brings to Andrew’s house as a pretext for their reunion contains such weighty secrets that it shatters the lies of a lifetime. Several lives. That of Andrew, the world-famous virtuoso pianist who was abandoned at birth by his father, and that of Philippe, the bookbinder and craftsman who has been crushed all his life by his father’s presence, authority and pain. The dialogue that develops between the two men will reveal all their resentment, their anger, their inability to understand, individually and together, this absent father, this father too present, before allowing the truth to emerge and do its work of reconstruction…