ALYTE HC

Please note! Text is in French.

Suddenly, a roaring din rips through the twilight. When silence returns, a toad lies on the asphalt. Gathering his last strength, he carries his string of eggs to the saving waters of the pond - and from the only unharmed egg hatches an orphaned tadpole: Alyte is a survivor.

Barely born, he's already got to fight his way out of the hands of birds, bears and other river gods. Fortunately, a salmon shows him how to use the currents and avoid the traps. This salmon is called Iode, and is his first friend. Later, Alyte meets a kid and an eagle; an owl, and finally Axon, the oldest tree in the forest. Each of them will tell him about the world in their own way, awakening him to its beauties. Soon, Alyte will have to take care of a new string of eggs. Then, like his father before him, he will have to cross the lethalyte. This straight line that crosses the forest and rumbles at the approach of animals. This black line that mows them down for no reason, against which the tiny Alyte has almost nothing to oppose but his immense thirst for life. After Le Discours de la panthère, Jérémie Moreau continues his exploration of the wild that lives alongside us, as close as it is invisible. Among the multitude of dramas that play out there, he chooses to stage the most fearsome: that of confrontation with an absurd and blind human world, its deadly violence, aimlessness and disregard. With Alyte, Jérémie Moreau's virtuosity invites readers to change their relationship with the living world and, like this valiant toad, enter into resistance.