In an inspired style, Béatrice Commengé recalls the life of British writer and world traveler Lawrence Durrell, like something out of a novel.

"We are the children of our landscape," claimed Lawrence Durrell. On the basis of this sentiment, which she shares, Béatrice Commengé examines the life and singular œuvre of a writer she chanced to meet on several occasions. We follow her journey as she tracks down a man in love with freedom and the sublime, eyes ever alert to the world's beauty, from his humid native India to clement Provence, from English drizzle to Greece's azure skies, from the mystery of cosmopolitan Alexandria to the platitudes of the Argentine pampas.