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2024-01-24T15:17:04.616Z

Highlights: Sophie Berger: presence of the dead. Alice, along with her brothers and sisters, cleaned out the house of a great-aunt who had just died. The young woman discovers a yellowed press article relating the plane accident (during a first flight) which, in 1976, in Brittany, cost the lives of her uncle Olivier and his wife, Yvonne, freshly married. First contact with this family tragedy covered by silence. We have forgotten or pretend to forget so that existence can regain its rights. It would take ten years and the end of the first confinement for Alice, who had become a sound director, traveling to Brittany for a report, to reconnect with history.


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Sophie Berger: presence of the dead

In 2010, Alice, along with her brothers and sisters, cleaned out the house of a great-aunt who had just died.

The young woman discovers a yellowed press article relating the plane accident (during a first flight) which, in 1976, in Brittany, cost the lives of her uncle Olivier and his wife, Yvonne, freshly married.

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First contact with this family tragedy covered by silence.

We have forgotten or pretend to forget so that existence can regain its rights.

It would take ten years and the end of the first confinement for Alice, who had become a sound director, traveling to Brittany for a report, to reconnect with history by making a detour to the cemetery where the couple was buried.

The thirty-year-old, mother of a little girl, then decides to set out in search of Olivier and Yvonne, to break a silence that has lasted forty-five years, the

“silence of those who do not want to disturb”

.

During her investigation, she finds archives, places, witnesses, even if it means waking up...

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