What a beautiful novel that this "night in truth", a painful and gloomy novel, certainly, but that carries with it something bright. Dreamlike, almost fantastic, he said the mother-son relationship, the search for origins, the father, the need to live his youth for the mother while being a good mother despite the limited resources, grime violence and stupidity of youth when they are in groups, the pretenses, misinterpretation, but also hope. What does not kill you makes you stronger they say. Véronique Olmi sensitively describes the deficiencies of these two characters, a deaf violence is reminiscent of his first "Seaside", the need to move forward, always: an intimate romance and initiation on a painful transition to adulthood.