He sees a lawyer for help in getting people to leave him alone, and is put in contact with a media agent, Fleur Arnaud, whose efforts inadvertently make him more and more famous.

When he appears on Fleur's television show, everything he says is twisted into a symbolic statement, and the more he pleads for his privacy, the more famous he becomes.

Martin is now broke, and the TV studio offers him a chance to cash in on his fame.

He returns to the studio to ask for help but is treated with contempt by the producer, who does however reveal that Fleur has disappeared.

He tells her to leave, but a passage Philomène reads from the autobiography makes him change his mind and he goes after her.