The French project will be released under the graphic novel's original title L'Ascension du Haut Mal (The Rise of the High Evil), reported Digital Spy online.
"The tonic-clonic seizures of one child are going to shatter the life of an entire family, who, throughout the '70s clings onto all the false hopes offered by magnetism and macrobiotic communities," reads the film's description.
"Their epic battle with epilepsy nourishes an extraordinary imaginary world that each one throws onto reality as a lifebelt."
The celebrated 1996-2003 comic series by David B (real name Pierre-Francois Beauchard) concerns the cartoonist's family life and his brother's severe epilepsy.
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