Le Tournant

Author's Note

A turning point is nothing like a smooth turn. It’s an abrupt break from what came before. It’s the moment when the ground gives way beneath our feet, when the machinery seizes up, and when certainties are swept away. It’s the moment when life is turned upside down, and when nothing will ever be the same again.

Some turning points tear us away from our roadmap to propel us toward something greater. Others, on the contrary, are head-on collisions or tsunamis that plunge us—without warning—into total darkness.

But whether it lifts us up or strikes us down, a turning point forces each of us to do the same thing: come face to face with ourselves.

In this liminal space where masks fall away and the illusion of control shatters, there is no longer any room for pretense. Only the essential remains.

It is precisely amid the chaos of this journey, at the very heart of our flaws and contradictions, that our truth emerges. The truth we have spent our lives concealing in order to perpetuate the myth of control.

Through Erika’s story, I wanted to explore this inner rebellion. That pivotal moment when laying down one’s arms is not an admission of weakness, but the first act of true emancipation. The moment when we stop merely enduring our lives and finally choose to live our own.