No one knows or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years In this wry comedy Basile is an elevenyear old boy living in a rural French town along with his mother with his grandparents He has the usual boyish adventures in town punctuated with odd goingson brought about by events which take place in his grandfathers crocodile farm However there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchairbound halfsister Cecile who has kept hidden from the world and her family and has lived in the attic for decades Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor Ceciles longlost lover Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come
