"Two agronomy students, anguished like their entire generation by the ecological crisis, refuse defeatism and set out to change the world. Kevin, son of agricultural workers, launches a vermicomposting start-up and dons the uniform of the a perfect defector on the scene of green capitalism, Arthur, a child of the bourgeoisie, tries to regenerate the family field ruined by pesticides but comes up against the reality of rural life. As they learn, the two friends put their ideals to rest. tough ordeal from Normandy to Silicon Valley, from anarchist cells to ministerial salons, Gaspard Kœnig recounts the paradoxes of our time - social mobility and class contempt, promise of progress and ecological insurrection, impossible love and heroic despair... history of land and men, in the great vein of realistic literature."--
