The Water Age - 1

Benjamin Flao

We're in France, the water has risen and there's no way it's going to recede. Faced with this new phenomenon, many populations have been displaced, surviving as best they can on land or learning to "float". Large cities, like major industrial centers, are systematically surrounded by dykes and subject to sanitary standards.
Faced with the potential unhealthiness and danger of these "off the levee" lifestyles, the authorities are urging these populations to move as quickly as possible to the emergency shelters being built, or risk losing some of their civil rights.
A family, whose home has been drowned by rising waters, refuses to obey the government's injunction. They live on a floating house. Jeanne, the mother, prefers this freedom. Jeanne has two sons, Hans and Groza, and a psychic dog. Groza, a former CRS officer traumatized by his past, speaks only in onomatopoeia and has developed a strange habit of wanting to solve every problem. Hans is going through a painful separation with the mother of his daughter Vinee. They are looking for a place to emerge where they can live in peace, and are ready to fight against nature's fury, but also against mankind, capable of the worst villainy to survive in this changing world.

An anticipation story with very topical and personal concerns, whose two volumes take us to the Loire region, drowned by rising waters.

Futuropolis, 12/01/2022
220 x 297 mm
160 pages