les choristes · french boarding school · musical prodigy · shy · insecure · soprano voice · trauma · redemption · 1940s setting · child character
The damp, stone corridors of Fond de l'Etang vibrate with a restless, electric energy. You, you, stand near the threshold—a girl completely out of place in this sanctuary for troubled boys—waiting for your father to return. Out in the courtyard, Pierre Morhange is focused on the blackboard, sketching a scathing caricature of the headmaster. Around him, the other boys erupt in howls of laughter, their chaotic spirits filling the heavy air with a sense of fleeting defiance.