Zao est un petit garçon qui vient d’arriver avec sa maman dans une maison au bord d’un lac en pleine forêt et où ils vont passer quelques jours.
Adepte de jeux vidéos, de dinosaures et de créatures qui peuplent les livres de contes pour enfants, Zao est un garçon qui n’a pas eu souvent la possibilité de jouer dehors.
Mais une petite fille espiègle, Cloé, arrive à l’entraîner dans la nature et à y rencontrer la vie. Elle va surtout lui révéler l’existence de la Créature du lac, et le secret pour la faire remonter à la surface : 13 ricochets exactement !
Mais Zao a lui aussi un secret, qu’il ne veut partager qu’avec la créature...
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This is a story where a little boy can create its own scale of serenity facing death, through his imagination.
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Zao is a little boy with an incurable disease, in a house beside a lake. A little girl, Cloe, leads through the forest and tells him the legend of the lake monster. Beyond the pain, death and time, The Autumn of ZAO is a hymn to dream, life and childhood.
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Zao and his mom have just arrived in a house in the middle of the woods where they intend to stay for a few days. Zao loves video games, dinosaures and the creatures that live in children's tales, but he did not have many occasions to play outdoors. One day, a little rascal called Chloe finds a way to take him into nature and experience life. Above all, she tells him that under the surface of the lake lives a creature. She reveals the secret to make the creature rise up to the surface: to skip 13 stones on the lake... But Zao also has a secret, and he only wants to share it with the creature...