The fate of everyone seems to hang on the arrival of James. James is the reluctant heir to a vast fortune amassed by his father, a children's book author who used his son as a model to create a beloved hero.

Being a kind of refugee himself, James tries to escape from his own fame, a boy adored by the world, who has, however, become a man filled with anger and resentment.

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