This book consists of "the fascinating adventure of a video with Patrick Straram" -- from September 1987 to the end of February 1988. Patrick Straram died on 6 March 1988. The book records a specific day, 13 February 1988. For several weeks, Patrick knew he did not have long to live. He could no longer write and he was having more and more trouble preparing his radio broadcasts at Radio Centre-ville in Montreal.