In the game of appearances, anyone can get trapped.

Millions of viewers are distractedly watching the evening news on France's leading TV channel when everything takes a dramatic turn. Live, right in front of the cameras, a masked man with a distorted voice takes the star anchor hostage. At first, he has only one condition: cut the broadcast and he kills the hostage. But then the demands keep coming. A deadly game of psychological manipulation begins between hostage negotiator and hostage taker, with the whole of France caught up in the bargain, from their very own living rooms.
In this fast-paced thriller, Maxime Chattam deftly handles the cliffhanger, probing our relationship with information, consumption, and truth.