Denis Vautrin

Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt it to avoid boredom. The octopus grows up.

"Cadavre exquis" is an invitation to a visual, olfactory, and aural drifting via a one-eyed dog's wandering. In the labyrinth of the streets and alleys of old Hanoi, daily life and legends mingle to the syncopated rhythm of Hat Xâm, Vietnamese blues.

In the garage of a quiet house, two children rummage through the shelves and accidentally knock over a can of oil. A drop falls and transforms into Goutix, the official mascot of Méroll, frying and motor oils. Goutix will take the kids on a wonderful and informative journey to the Méroll factory in question. You too, at the table or in the garage, ask for the best: Méroll oil!

A girl who lives in Saigon, Vietnam, has a mother who sells cold coffee, but after her mother's decease she has to leave school and take over the family business.

Phnom Penh. Nakry and Sothear meet on the Sisowath quay for their first date. At nightfall, the romance turns into a nightmare when the young girl transforms into a strange creature…

Vietnam. The early hours in Hanoi of three young brothers newly arrived from their native village. Around the Long Bien Bridge, link between city and countryside, they cross the path of a young cop and a street vendor.

In a peaceful vegetable garden, the mother of a little tomato defuses a nighttime scare by recounting the terrible fate of a knife and how its desire for violence led to its downfall.

Badluck is a man with the head of a fish (this is a play on words in French between « poisse » – bad luck and « poisson » – fish). Bubbles of bad luck come out of his mouth. When one of the bubbles follows somebody, it throws a spell on that person. And the victim is sent into a tailspin of misery and bad luck where the worst that can possibly happen always does, right up until death, in the most incredible circumstances (but meaningless for the other protagonists) ends his or her cycle of bad luck. With dark, scathing irony, the “Badluck” Chronicles will allow you to have a great deal of fun at somebody else’s expense. And you won’t even feel guilty about it !