A dozen high school students in a theatre elective find themselves stuck with a substitute teacher for a month. As they recite Shakespeare from a safe distance, the teacher abruptly interrupts their rehearsal. In an age where young people hide their emotions behind a mask, their heads either too high or too low, the question of intimacy becomes increasingly inescapable.

Jojo, a widower and single father, divides his time between the barbershop and his sons Olivier and Randy. When his life turned upside down again, he will have no choice but to confront his reality. Inspired by the memories and words of a loving mother, the trio will try to rebuild.

Raise the desire.

Bobby Nazebroque is a debut novel about addiction and the difficult reconciliation with the child we once were. Disarmingly vulnerable, humorous, and tender, it describes in a surgical yet poetic way the daily life of a hypersensitive and lonely young man, between shrink appointments and search for his one true love. A Holden Caulfield for millennials.