Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
During a heat wave in Montreal, Tom, 11, meets Édith, who’s the same age. He soon discovers that Édith has a terrible secret.
Narrator Jeffy, now an adult, recounts his youthful adventures in the mid-1980s with humour and nostalgia. A typically awkward, insecure 12-year-old, Jeffy wants the same thing as millions of other young people his age: to be accepted and to find his place in the “nuclear catastrophe” phase of life called adolescence.
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