The story charts how young Polish refugee Jan Bojarski became the biggest counterfeiter of all time, “the Cézanne of fake money”, in post-war France; how, for over fifteen years and unbeknownst to his family, this man led a double life making counterfeit money - which was “more real” than the notes printed by the Bank of France - in a shed at the bottom of his garden; and how, in all these years, this unparalleled faker managed to slip through the police’s net to become the thorn in Commissioner Mattei’s side, over the course of a hunt which fast turned into a duel for these two obsessives…。
