Sebastian Zollner is set on writing the biography of the painter Manuel Kaminski.

Yet Kaminski - once a pupil of Matisse, now an ailing recluse - is not the kind of character to willingly embrace such a project.

And Zollner - inept, charmless, and with scant knowledge of art history - is hardly the man to undertake it.

So it’s a good job Sebastian has an ace up his sleeve, and that Kaminski will have little choice in the matter…