The Melancholy of the Grasshoppers

Content : It was the summer of all promises. It has become the one that now haunts his life.

Arthur is fourteen. He lives in a remote corner of an even more remote village, and he’s dying of boredom. When the Claroux family move into the neighbouring house for the holidays, bringing with them four children and a joyful chaos, at last something is happening! He’s ready to do anything to be accepted, to fit in. Then, over the course of one summer, his life changes forever.
Arthur is twenty now. Consumed by guilt, he returns to his childhood home, long since abandoned. There, the past catches up with him. Six years of remorse, six years of silence, six years of regretting the choice he made.
Because that day, his world collapsed.