The story is set in a small village in the Vosges: a mongoloid child disappeared from St-Maurice institute, orphanage and hospice for old.
Between alcoholic watered the TV series, a former convict, a former inmate of the hospice legionnaire in childhood and hyper-vindictive, instit his girlfriend in the same shop, most notable corrupt officials-said institute them unable gendarmes The brutalized population and a few hundred cats mémère viandards the almost wild, everything comes together for a superb final explosion.
Who ventured on a cold morning in a remote village boozer des Vosges in the 80 will not be surprised by the atmosphere a bit "original" of this story.
The drawings are sublime Baru, an Areopagus big mouths of beautiful morons. The powerful colors contrast with the winter atmosphere, the lack of dialogue on certain pages rajoutent the fatalistic drama.
The province in all its glory and not for the overly sensitive Parisian bobos.