Chapel Road is the story of the author L. P. Boon, who continues his "illegal writing" (writing without form or function) of the novel "Chapel Road" amid cynical reflections on the work in progress, theories about art, and hilarious anecdotes of Belgian life supplied by friends. Beyond that, a retelling of the myth of Reynard the fox and Isengrinus the wolf constitutes a third storyline, one that underscores the greed, stupidity, hypocrisy, pride and lust motivating the other characters in the book.