According to official figures, 7% of schoolchildren in France suffer from severe psychological disorders. Faced with this observation, nothing seems to be considered apart from the policy of last-minute tinkering, says Ophélie Roque, a teacher.

“We cannot treat humanity in broad terms without this leading to the worst inhumanity, namely accounting and finicky altruism, concerned not with people but with statistics,” she says. Ella published Black Mesa (Robert Laffont, 2023), her first novel, in 2023.