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Incest perpetrated by minors is glaringly absent as a media concern, despite being omnipresent to social, health and judicial workers. Yet it produces specific upheavals within French families. This article results from a current doctoral research in anthropology on families facing incest between minors and on fmily reconfigurations once the secret is lifted. It presents two families in which a child reveals to have been a victim of incest by his brother, leading them to receiveinstitutional support. Previously unspeakable, incest is hereafter narrated, repeated, interpreted by professionals and by family members. With time and the multiplication of contexts of enunciation, the initially discordant accounts of the perpetrator and the victim of incest start to show variations: they evolve as interpersonal, family and institutional issues become intertwined. Here, the analysis ocuses on a question stemming from an ethnographic fieldwork in a specialised child protection service: how to render the experiences of minors who commit incest and of their families, when the truth appears as something variable, uncertain, affective, individual or collective, to which one can adhere or contest, but with which all must in any case cope?