Brigitte Ollier gathered testimonies from those who knew, more or less well, Hervé Guibert (1955-1991), from his beginnings at Le Monde to his final film La Pudeur ou l'Impudeur, all recalling with emotion this secretive young man as at ease writing photography criticism as he was behind the lens of his Rollei 35. Fragments of a novelistic life, Hervé illuminates the writer-photographer whose work Christine Guibert describes as "a closed, entirely constructed and finished space".