The Elder Man

Uncovering and divulging an outlandish conspiracy will put a hard bump into any journalist's career, and Armin can only blame himself when he's dispatched from Frankfurt's skyscrapers into the depths of rural France on the unglamorous job of writing about a cobbing workshop.

Natural building is messy, dirty, and sweaty work, but it has its consolations. For example, Van, the greying but undeniably hot master cobber teaching the workshop. Sure, the man is a hopeless tree-hugger, with embarras...