Nissim Renard

Marie has been a prostitute in Strasbourg for 20 years. She has her own pavement, her regulars, her freedom and also a 17-year-old son, Adrien. To ensure his future, Marie wants to pay for his education, but she needs the money quickly.

The only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?