Most elderly people hate the young. It’s as though we’re lepers, or not quite human. We have to fight for our place, slave away before we can be considered worthy of interest. They’ve forgotten they were in our shoes once, and they don’t want to be reminded. Youth is an accursed and chaotic time, a deadly boring, in-between state. But youth is so short, when you can live to almost 200.

Imagine a society where old age really is the golden age. Where the past, with its cult of youth, has been wiped from memory. Where nothing good can happen to a person before they’re 40. Where anyone who is able to, willingly spends a fortune to acquire lovely wrinkles and beautiful white hair as soon as they can…

After Les Gosses, La Tyrannie des apparences is a fable that pokes fun at our society and its idiosyncrasies.

In a society where the elderly are treated like royalty and young people are wretched, a young woman rebels.