No et moi

Lou Bertignac is 13 years old, a 160-year-old IQ and questions full of his head. She looks wide open, looks at people, collects words, engages in domestic experiences and devours encyclopedias. A unique child of an imbalanced family, between a broken mother and a father champion of the feigned good mood, in the darkness of an apartment whose curtains remain drawn, Lou invents theories to tame the world. At the train station of Austerlitz, she meets No, a young homeless girl barely older than she. No, her tired face, her dirty clothes, her silence. No, deprived of love, rebel, wild. No, whose wandering and loneliness question the world. Men and women sleep in the street, queue for a hot meal, walk to not die of cold. "Things are what they are." That's what we should be content to explain the violence around us. What we should admit. But Lou would like things to be different.