The nature of the beast

The day does not pass even that the nine-year-old Laurent Lepage does not compose any fantastic story-about the invasion of Martians, a huge gun, winged monsters seen by him in the forest. Of course, none of the inhabitants of the village of three pine trees take his chatter seriously, including the former senior police inspector Arman Gamash, who settled here after resignation. But the boy disappears, and soon the search group deep in the forest stumbled upon a mysterious find that provides that the monster still visited the places. People begin to suspect that not all of Loran’s stories pure fiction. Arman Gamash understands: perhaps he himself, without believing the boy, influenced the fatal course of events