Who is this young woman who deliberately burns herself with an oven, unable to get her roommates to open up ? Why does a teenager punch his father in the back in the middle of a concert ? Why does a famous influencer hide the existence of her youngest son ? This is the wild part, the gesture that escapes us, a blind impulse, or the disordered expression of a sudden desire to change one’s life.
In the course of these ten short stories, sometimes tragic and often funny, Erwan Desplanques delightfully dissects the tipping points of his characters, their sudden derailment.
