For more than forty years, Pierre Bruneau has been the privileged link between Quebec viewers and the major events that have shaped Quebec and the world, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the attacks of September 11, 2001, to the massacre of Polytechnique , the Amerindian crisis of 1990 and the two referendums on sovereignty. In this autobiographical story, he traces the great moments of his life, his childhood in Victoriaville in a large family to his early interest in the world of communications that led him to animate the early evening newscast to TVA since 1976. Before his son Charles was swept away by leukemia in 1988, after a long and courageous fight, Pierre Bruneau made him the promise to continue the fight against pediatric cancer. This lifelong commitment led to the creation of the Charles-Bruneau Foundation, which is present today at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, the Montreal Children's Hospital, the QuÔebec Mother-Child Center and the Hospital Center. University of Sherbrooke. In a simple and direct style, often full of emotion, he recounts his dual career as a media man and man of commitment.