Used book – La chaleur, Victor Jestin

"Oscar died because I watched him die, without moving. He died strangled by the ropes of a swing." This is how the last day of 17-year-old Léonard unfolds in a sun-drenched campsite in the Landes region. He himself cannot explain this irreparable act. Is remaining motionless the same as killing? In a panic, he buries the body on the beach. The next day, wandering through the crowded aisles, he fears discovery at any moment. And then he meets a girl. The short and intense story of a teenager alienated from the world around him, who passively but with all his might resists the injunction to happiness pouring from the campsite loudspeakers.