Biologist Henri Laborit said of man that he is "a species in which each element suffers, individually or in groups, without understanding that his suffering is born from him, flourishes and spreads throughout the world." In his novel "Le temps qu'il ne fait pas," Rémi Caspar highlights characters with multiple traits, tender or hard. Like "lightning catchers," they share a certain propensity to complicate the lives of others, or even singularly their own. With his subtle, sometimes wry, even wacky humor, the author confronts us in a certain way with the mysteries of our societal mode.