Humus | Gaspard Koenig

Two agronomy students, anguished like their entire generation by the ecological crisis, refuse defeatism and set out to change the world.

Kevin, the son of farm workers, launches a vermi-composting start-up and takes on the mantle of the perfect defector on the green capitalism scene.

Arthur, a child of the bourgeoisie, tries to regenerate the family field ruined by pesticides but comes up against the reality of rural life.

As they learn, the two friends put their ideals to the test.

From the Normandy countryside to Silicon Valley, from anarchist cells to ministerial salons, Gaspard Koenig recounts the paradoxes of our time - social mobility and class contempt, the promise of progress and ecological insurrection, impossible love and heroic despair...

A story of land and men, in the great vein of realist literature.