Others were groping down
false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.
When Léa and Mathieu first cross
paths, it is under
false pretenses - Mathieu is posing as a vegetarian, infiltrating the local animal rights community for information that will force Léa's restaurant
toward a swifter demise.