Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne |
Once upon a time...
Alice is an inquisitive, resourceful, determined, bright girl
from Brossard. At eighteen, driven by her need for self-assertion,
she decides it's time for her to leave college and the family
nest to live her own life in the place where everything is possible,
that is, the big city. After a chance meeting in the subway,
Alice lands in a neighbourhood she's never heard of and where
people are extremely odd. But that is to be expected, isn't it?
She is in Montréal, and in every self-respecting big city
there are lots of eccentrics like Charles and Wart, lots of cranks
like Andromaque or Chess, and more disturbing people like Bone
and Flesh.
So Alice settles in and lives her new life with unshakeable
gusto, ready to do anything in order to carve out a place for
herself in the sun. But what she doesn't know is that in this
neighbourhood she's elected to live in, ready to do anything
has a very special meaning...
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