Outline

The final year before graduation has begun. Everything seems the same… and yet, everything is about to change. Ben, Clara, and Andreas face the end of summer and the start of their senior year with the unsettling feeling of being suspended on a threshold. Ben wants to savor every moment with Clara before time pulls them in different directions, but something begins to break: she's distancing herself, just as Andreas, his best friend, did before, without explanation. Throughout the year, tensions build, silences weigh more than words, and the future bursts in with inevitable questions: What will you do next? Where will you study? Will you move out? What comes next? With elegant lines and eloquent silences, Michèle Fischels transforms teenage doubt into deeply sensitive narrative material. Outline, her striking graphic novel debut, captures that fragile moment when we cautiously leave childhood behind and look ahead with a mixture of uncertainty and anticipation. Through a palette that breathes color and melancholy, Fischels crafts a deeply relatable story about friendships that transform, loves that crumble, and the difficulty of naming what we feel when everything changes.