Following a screw-up with an assignment, political journalist Nathalie Pove is demoted to sports journalist, covering soccer news. Then her boss asks her cover the second round presidential campaign of Pierre-Henry Mercier, a fiftyish scion of a powerful French family, leading the polls. Pove instantly suspects something is amiss and that Pierre-Henry Mercier is not the political novice he is being presented as. What a determined Pove's investigation unearths is both revealing and hilarious.