This is the story of the last school term for two teenagers at the Alter École - an alternative education center for school dropouts. The story of Merlin, who prefers the quietude of his vegetable garden to the din of our society, and that of Elie, who is slowly awakening to political activism, the better to denounce social injustice. Two boys who are said to be “ill-behaved” because they're more in touch with who they are. Two young adults questioning the self-destructive society that brought them into the world, and which they have decided, each in their own way, to challenge. Grappling with their desire for autonomy and the demands of school, these two teenagers are awakening to the world, like young people of their own age and generation.
This is the story of the last school term for two teenagers at the Alter École - an alternative education center for school dropouts. The story of Merlin, who prefers the quietude of his vegetable garden to the din of our society, and that of Elie, who is slowly awakening to political activism, the better to denounce social injustice. Two boys who are said to be “ill-behaved” because they're more in touch with who they are. Two young adults questioning the self-destructive society that brought them into the world, and which they have decided, each in their own way, to challenge. Grappling with their desire for autonomy and the demands of school, these two teenagers are awakening to the world, like young people of their own age and generation.