« He is the artist of runway jamming. A virtuoso of camouflage, of identity filtering, a billionaire touches everything whose traces have dissolved to the point of making him invisible. To the point that his very death passes as unnoticed as his life did. And that his descendants, a hundred years later, do not know if he is a business genius, a bandit, an outstanding publicist, a high-flying pimp, a poker player. They call him l'abuelo, the grandfather...”
Flamboyant Franco-Argentinian tycoon and builder of a gigantic entertainment empire, Charles Seguin (1877-1930) played a decisive role in the worldwide rise of tango by popularizing it through the sprawling network of its cabarets and performance halls both in Buenos Aires and in Paris where the aristocracy of the two countries meets.

Odile Fillion relies on unpublished archives of the Seguin family to lift the veil on an extraordinary character inseparable from an often unknown part of the history of tango. It also revives a whole era of excitement, frivolities and disproportions.
Odile Fillion is recognized in the world of tango for her passion and expertise. Parallel to her activities in the field of architecture with Jean Nouvel, she has been hosting the most famous milongas in France for twenty years. As a historian and filmmaker, her research and documentaries contribute to the transmission of the art of tango that she discovered in the early 2000s in Buenos Aires