"You don't live, you get mad," a colleague once told me. I've had dogs.

We licked each other's muzzles. I jumped at their necks. We were reporting the bullets. I sometimes came home soaked in rain. Them, the same. And together we wiped away the tears of life. All that the journalist and Savoyard testifies – he lives in Beaufortain – Cédric Sapin-Defour in this dazzling and serious book.