Pitch

For years he was tipped as the Republicans' candidate against François Hollande in 2017, and his name came up again in 2022 as the man who might unsettle the expected Macron–Le Pen contest. It surfaces regularly for the post of Prime Minister. Respected on the left and ticking every box on the right, François Baroin had the profile of the ideal candidate.

Drawing on interviews with François Baroin, with those close to him and with his opponents, and on archive material much of it never seen before, the film traces the path of a gifted young man who became the most confounding politician of his generation — one whose ambitions remain, as ever, thoroughly opaque as a major election approaches.