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"Our apartment was one hundred years old, and it was haunted. Friends suggested that we paint a black spot on the ceiling to get rid of the ghost. She wasn't a bad ghost, she was just an old hooker. She kept turning the front hall light on and off, and opening doors for her johns, who came at all hours of the night. She loved sex and she loved parties, so we were forced to have sex and parties all the time to appease her. Other ghosts were also there: immigrants who spoke neither English nor French. They had come from far away, and longed to return to their homelands. Sometimes they sang sad songs. Shimmer started as their story. My grandmother's story, my parents' story and mine got mixed up with theirs along the way." - Nelson Henricks
Léolo es un niño que vive en un humilde barrio de Montreal, atrapado en una sórdida existencia. Cada noche intenta evadirse por medio de los recuerdos, los sueños y su desbordante imaginación, pero la cruda realidad familiar interrumpe siempre sus fantasías: tiene un padre obsesionado por la salud intestinal de toda la familia, un hermano culturista que vive preso del miedo, dos hermanas que padecen trastornos mentales, un abuelo a quien nadie presta demasiada atención y una madre enorme que domina el microcosmos familiar.
