Emeline Penet

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

An ogre breaks his teeth the day before Saint-Festin, the ogres’ great celebration day. A magician botches his trick of sawing a woman in half, and loses his assistant’s legs. An overequipped hiker gets stuck in the elevator for several days. An old man falls in love with a runaway pair of legs. A mother asks her neighbour to look after her children on the eve of Saint-Festin… In one building, the lives of ten next-door neighbours, or the neighbours of neighbours, intertwine as they grapple with the dramas, joys, surprises and dangers of everyday life.

A giantess builds a small town, but a man shows up and starts wrecking it accidentally.

In a lively and seemingly peaceful neighborhood, with a warm atmosphere that is part of its charm, we discover the sordid story of Akplokplobito, a little girl who faces the insurmountable, which has become unspeakable...