In this book, Caroline Dawson addresses her son who is celebrating his 7th birthday, the same age she was when she immigrated to Quebec, to tell him everything she initially had the instinct to keep quiet about: exile, racism, shame. With careful writing that seeks to cross the boundaries between poetry and storytelling, the author repairs the divide that separates the timid refugee in an unknown world from this reckless, trilingual boy who loves critters. Ce qui est tu meticulously builds real bridges between experiences and generations, in such a way as to leave a legacy not of shame, but of nothing less than the beauty of the world.