It’s just before the 2017 presidential election and on the heels of the latest oil crisis France has fallen into chaos.

On top of gas shortages, food has become scarce, there is practically no electricity, no Internet or telephone. All of our modern comforts have collapsed one after the other, and people have no idea what’s going on in the outside world.

Guillaume is neither a hero nor impetuous but he sees that life in Paris has become unmanageable. He and his girlfriend Laure travel on foot towards the Basque Country where his parents live. On their journey, they are joined by Cécile, Laure’s pampered and pregnant sister-in-law, Clément, a tough man who claims to be a doctor, and Cyril, a teenager with a heart of gold who came out of nowhere.

Nobody is prepared for the violence and mayhem they’ll be faced with day after day on their journey. They not only face threats from other ordinary people they meet along the way but from a faction of the military that has become fascist and deadly.

Réjault and Latorre have written an entertaining and disturbingly realistic thriller about what happens to human nature when confronted with impossible conditions.

Le chemin qui menait vers vous first began as an Internet sensation in February 2010. Réjault and Latorre wrote three chapters at a time that over 20,000 readers downloaded to their iPhones.