Pierre Théorêt

The story of families haunted, despite themselves, by a past that has not died.

Captain Charles Patenaude and his crew leave Earth aboard the Romano Fafard in search of a planet that can accommodate the entire population of Earthlings.

Nathalie wanted love, Kim wanted success and Sarah wanted peace. But they all find themselves getting the opposite of what they wanted when destiny reunites these three former best friends after 18 years, at a funeral that somehow lands them at the police station.

Narrator Jeffy, now an adult, recounts his youthful adventures in the mid-1980s with humour and nostalgia. A typically awkward, insecure 12-year-old, Jeffy wants the same thing as millions of other young people his age: to be accepted and to find his place in the “nuclear catastrophe” phase of life called adolescence. ​