Linda Malo

Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.

Mathilde, a marginalized teenager, must move to the countryside with her family for a reason she would like to bury deep inside herself. Upon moving into her new home, she discovers that a ghost lives there. This ghost is that of Isabeau, a very friendly and sympathetic 19th-century woman who has modernized over her 150 years of wandering. These two characters will become friends and help each other through (one) life and (the other) death. While unraveling the injustices they have experienced, rooted in their respective eras, they develop deep bonds that will allow them to find peace.