176 Steps

Octave loves music and plays the piano wonderfully, but feels so paralyzed by fear of the unknown that he hardly ever leaves the sumptuous estate where he lives with his mother and his aunt Simone. For Delphine, it’s just the opposite: she swims, fishes, explores, and works for her fishmonger parents, when she’s not happily squabbling with her four brothers. In her eyes, life is a perpetual adventure… except at school! One day, Delphine and Octave cross paths, and an unlikely friendship is born. Is Delphine as daring as she appears to be? What conflict in Octave’s past makes him so fearful of the outside world? Will they be able to help each other live freely at last? A moving fable about the different faces of anxiety, 176 Steps celebrates, first and foremost, the transformative power of friendship.