What good are theoretical debates when your personal life lies in pieces?

One night, Marion Muller-Colard, a member of France's National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE), is informed that her father has had a massive stroke. She collapses to the floor at once. After a sleepless night, she finds him alive but a shadow of the man who, in the flowery rhetoric he so often favored before the accident, had once said, "Don't piss off your elders." Understood: no harassment. What good are debates over theory when your personal life lies in pieces? That is the question the author of this raw, tender work asks.