Quentin Guigno

Étienne is barely twenty when he falls in love with Valérie. They are hardly any more when their daughter Rosa is born. And then, one day, Valérie leaves and never returns. He chooses not to make a drama of it and builds a happy life for him and his child. Sixteen years later, when Rosa is about to lead her own life, Étienne recognizes his wife in a television report. The past brutally resurfaces, and father and daughter are propelled into one last chaotic family journey.

람세스는 ′구뜨 도르′ 구역에서 활동하는, 약간 교활하고 사기꾼 기질도 있는 심령술사다. 돈벌이는 좋지만 그의 일은 합법과 비합법의 경계에 놓여있다. 이 깨지기 쉬운 균형은 탕헤르에서 온 소년들이 동네에 좀도둑질하러 왔을 때 위태로워진다. 람세스는 청소년들에게 좀 더 가까이 갈 수 있는 능력을 갖춘 영매이기 때문이다.

Badluck is a man with the head of a fish (this is a play on words in French between « poisse » – bad luck and « poisson » – fish). Bubbles of bad luck come out of his mouth. When one of the bubbles follows somebody, it throws a spell on that person. And the victim is sent into a tailspin of misery and bad luck where the worst that can possibly happen always does, right up until death, in the most incredible circumstances (but meaningless for the other protagonists) ends his or her cycle of bad luck. With dark, scathing irony, the “Badluck” Chronicles will allow you to have a great deal of fun at somebody else’s expense. And you won’t even feel guilty about it !