20 young actors are brought together in a laboratory by stage directors Véronique and Gabrielle Côté to create a collective work for one of the major national theaters. Over the course of a full year, they will delve into contemporary Quebec poetry with the aim of drawing out "the spirit of the times". In workshops and across the country, we witness the process of bringing Je me soulève into the world. What kind of people will we be in the future? What can art do to transform the world? Will we still be able to have children? Insurgent, inhabited by the fervor of those who dream of beauty, obeying only their intuition, they erect an ode to life. And when - as if by magic - one of their number is elected to Quebec's National Assembly, poetry literally becomes part of the country's political life.