The three protagonists of Philippe Lesage’s film have much more in common than just their youth: they’re all going through the turmoil of first love—a feeling that’s beautiful but difficult to harness, especially with contradictory thoughts constantly running through your head. 16-year-old Guillaume, away at a boarding school, is increasingly enamoured with his male best friend, but well aware of the risk that involves. Meanwhile his sister Charlotte’s boyfriend casually proposes having an open relationship. Is that what she signed up for? The third piece of the puzzle is Félix, who falls in love with a girl named Beatrice at summer camp. Where feelings are involved, there are no rulebooks, especially when first love is blossoming. In Genesis, Philippe Lesage captures the sunshine and sorrow of youth, the first dilemmas and conundrums, the chaos that gets unleashed in the teenagers’ lives. Particularly since as teenagers we’re at our most courageous and unwilling to compromise in our fight for the right to love and be free.