Antoine L'Écuyer

In the summer of '68, Leon Doré comes close to hanging himself accidentally. His mother saves him at the last minute, just like last summer in the pool and like two years ago in the freezer. At ten, Leon has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. There is Mom and Dad who are always fighting and those annoying neighbours who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there's Lea, the exasperating girl who's always right about everything. When Mom decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in Greece, Léon is prepared to do anything to kill the pain – destroy the neighbours' house, become a professional liar and even, why not, fall in love with Lea. Together, they will overcome the pain of growing up when you feel abandoned.

In the 1960s, a teenager from Quebec evolves from a pro-independence activist to a radical terrorist.

The death of a man, whose job and parenthood were ruled by withholding information, leaves two nameless daughters baffled by their place in the world.

Above all, The 4 soldiers is a story of interconnecting destinies. During a civil war, a conflict that has robbed them of everything including their youth, four soldiers aged 15 to 21 meet and bond. Trapped in an adults’ war that they neither understand nor want any part of, Matéo, Dominique, Big Max and Kevin save themselves by creating a kind of family, making their home in a cabin by a pond. Slowly, each of them finds his place. The family grows with the arrival of young Gabriel, who must be trained to their ways. The narrator, Dominique, immerses us in this beautiful, poignant, fleeting story.