Unlike other teenagers, Roman doesn’t seem interested in sports or drugs, girls or boys. He’s neither nihilist, religious, depressive or suicidal. His goal is to vanish, dying is unimportant and he’s only interested in the act’s spectacular effect. But please, don’t misinterpret it as a death.

When Jonas was 14 he met the charismatic but mysterious Nathan. In addition to guiding him in his sexuality, Jonas soon confronts something dark and even dangerous about his new friend. Now an attractive, sexually assured adult, memories still haunt him Trying frantically to put the missing pieces together, Jonas becomes determined to break the shackles of the past and finally set himself free.

Marvin Bijou runs away. Changes his name to Martin Clément. He has fled his small village in the Vosges Mountains, escaping his family – his father’s tyranny and his mother’s resignation; intolerance and rejection, the bullying he suffered from being singled out as “different”. Against all odds, he somehow manages to find allies: first, Madeleine Clément, the middle school principal who introduces him to theater and whose name he later adopts as a symbol of his salvation. And then, Abel Pinto, his mentor and role model, who will encourage him to tell his story on stage. Marvin, who becomes Martin, will risk everything to create this show that represents so much more than success: it is his path to reinvention.