Through the ray

It's summer, Jeanne has a small job as a janitor in a building. The time passes by watching movies in his dressing room or at the neighborhood cinema. waiting for a possible return to university, she studies some books on the seventh art. This is how she hears about the bridges cinematographic, a theory one could, like the famous green ray evoked in Eric Rohmer, meeting film characters in reality, reliving with them certain scenes. At that precise moment, reality and fiction would coincide perfectly, finally. This theory will from then on completely obsess Jeanne, convinced that she had come across two characters from a film she had seen in the park recently. All that remains is to recreate the conditions of this appearance, rehearse the lines, relive the scene; all that remains is to get your friends involved, in spite of themselves, in this somewhat crazy story. Soon, Jeanne saw only for this obsession, which little by little makes him lose his footing, to the point of dizziness. Across the Ray is a disturbing first book, which explores that moment when adolescence ends in the last days of summer. One foot in life, With her head in dreams, Jeanne seeks an escape from reality. If we don't no longer believes that cinema can change our lives, what's the point in continuing to watch movies?