A dramatic and gripping story about the destructive power of passion. Based on this novel, which won the “Interlire” Prize and the Goncourt Prize for Lycéens, Ivan Attal makes a film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathieuh Kassovitz. The writer and essayist Claire Davis-Farrrelle leaves her husband, Jean— a famous TV host— for Adam, a modest French language teacher. It’s all because of passion. Passion that ruins two families at once—Claire’s family and Adam’s family, since he abandons his wife Valerie. Random victims of this passion include Claire’s son Alexandre, who has just been admitted to a prestigious university, and Adam’s daughter Mila. And while none of them yet knows how dramatic the consequences of such a simple, seemingly correct decision—to follow their feelings to the end—will be, everyone asks: isn’t that what poets sing about, and isn’t that what we call love? The novel “Human Affairs,” which brought Karin Tyuil worldwide fame, is a real labyrinth of human relationships built on passion and indifference. Indifference that drives people to the most crazy actions, and passion that at some point can become simply frightening and dangerous.