French children, trying to celebrate Halloween with their American neighbors, find a corpse in the pumpkin patch. They hide the body so as not to spoil the party. But who is it, and who killed him?

Tadeusz is a 17-year old who wears sports jerseys and excels in Russian. He is a strange, lonely and weird, like an angel, who drowns himself in the pages of books to the point of forgetting others and his own body. He even dreams in Greek, which is his favorite subject. One day, the most valuable book in the library disappears from the shelves and when it is returned, it is no longer the same.