Set on the rugged north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, The Iguana tells the realistic, yet fabulous, story of an extraordinary friendship between two young boys who appear to have nothing in common except a tragic loneliness. Recently, the narrator's safe childhood world was shattered by a fatal snowmobile accident involving his parents. He was taken in by his grandparents in the village of Ferland, "a natural crucible where the wind merges with the forest and the waves." Slowly, he befriends his classmate Luc Bezeau, a misfit who takes refuge from a brutal home environment in a magical undersea realm inhabited by fantastic beings. Together, the boys construct new reasons for living, which launch them on a wild, adventurous search.

Translation of: L'iguane.