With the certainty of a dreamwalker, Augustin Meaulnes, known in school as 'the great Meaulnes', embarks on a wandering journey from the confines of village life to a mysterious estate. He finds his paradise and then loses it again. Restlessly, he searches for the place where he met a beautiful girl. Supported by his younger friend and admirer François Seurel, who tells this story. The map does not reveal the way. Yet, in 1913, a hundred years ago, Alain-Fournier's only completed novel was published for the first time in five installments in the renowned Nouvelle Revue Française. It missed the Prix Goncourt by just one vote, but soon became a cult book and remains one of the most-read books in France to this day. On September 22, 1914, Alain-Fournier fell in the early weeks of World War I.