What connects a woman who poisons her successive husbands and a lovelorn president of the Republic? What connection exists between a simple sailor and an international con man selling religious articles made in China? How can an image of Saint Rita, patron saint of hopeless causes, become a mysterious guide in their lives? Four intertwined stories. Four stories that transcend the mundanity and the extraordinary of each life. These stories pose the questions: Are we free or subject to fate? Can we change? "Concerto à la mémoire d'un ange" is followed by the diary Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt kept while writing. A collection of intriguing and moving stories in which fate turns for better or for worse, often with dark humor and apparent naiveté, all in the service of an original reflection, according to Blaise de Chabalier of Le Figaro Littéraire.