It all started on the island where I go on vacation. First, I buy a strange wooden tablet for next to nothing. Wanting to understand the signs engraved on the side leads me to Elisabeth. It’s a kind of writing, she says: Rongo-Rongo from Easter Island.

Endless beaches and paths through the forest, the scent of the ocean and immortelle flower, bodies sprawling in the sun: the summer is off to a good start.

Except that my friend Ficelle is coming to stay with me in the big house on the dune. Ficelle and his very bad habits. Ficelle who isn’t afraid of anything. The kind of guy who changes the course of history.

Jean Luc Cattacin enchants two teenagers’summer of wild oats, intertwining their introduction to drugs and desire with the mystery of an un-deciphered language for a hypnotic and poetical tale, full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.