Lucrèce La Chenardière

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing and nearly destroys his mother.

When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.

The city is quiet, it is night, a shadow hovers over the city. In Saint-Denis, it is the beginning of spring and everything is agitated around Aton. The young man's life is turned upside down by the arrival of his father, his university exams, and especially by the appearance of a mysterious young woman, Nina. The shadow is always there, it prowls around Aton's building: it has found its prey. This is the beginning of a journey through the night, of a magical quest, from which the young man will not emerge unscathed.