Sous la chaleur

One July midday, in the near future, the daytime curfew alarm sounds. Élise takes refuge, as she does every day, in her ventilated basement with her two sons, Tom and Noah. But this time Noah does not arrive, even as the outdoor heat has become unbreathable.

Noah's worrying absence crystallizes the tension between Élise, a longtime environmental activist, and Tom, who watches the heat crush his youth. When Léonie, a whimsical street performer, bursts into the cellar, she upends their bearings and their secrets.

Between family drama and dystopian thriller, Sous la chaleur is a poetic chamber piece where contemporary prose blends with alexandrines, and where transmission, commitment, and freedom collide in a world shrunk by climate change.