What is the main conflict in The Imperfectionists: A Novel by Tom Rachman?

Lloyd Burko is an older man who has been a newspaper reporter for more than forty years. However, Lloyd is beginning to find it difficult to make a living as most of his stories are not of a quality to be published daily. Lloyd meets with his son, who works for the French foreign ministry, and asks for a story he might write about. The son offers some information, but makes his father promise not to write about it. Lloyd does anyway only to discover the story was fictional and that his son does not actually work for the French foreign ministry anymore. In the end, Lloyd ends up confessing everything to his son and moving in with him.