The Octopuses

600 rue de la Papinière, Sucé-sur-Erdre

Trapped in the locker rooms of a swimming pool, three bruised teenagers set fire to their fears and loneliness. Based on a text by Sophie Merceron, Guillaume Bariou composes a wild poetry about friendship, imagination, and resistance, through drawing and music. Simon and Ulysse are in a center for children “who do not walk straight.” The first hears the voice of his ghost brother; the second sometimes has a throat so tight he cannot breathe. One day Ana enters their lives. She claims to have an octopus in her head. To carry the strong writing of Sophie Merceron, Guillaume…