"Wait, I've got to show you something." With his fingers adorned with imposing silver rings, Thierry takes his black wallet out of his back pocket and pulls out a square passport photo, with serrated edges. Now cracked by the years, the portrait represents Ann, Thierry's mother, in 1964, is it scribbled at the back. The young woman is blonde and wears a blow-dry in the fashion of the "sixties". One of the only photos left to this 57-year-old house painter, whose career was marked by ruptures, falls... and a secret revealed after years of research. Placed at a young age at the Ddass, "Titi" discovered at the age of 40 that his father was alive, that he lived in Canada, and that he had a half-brother.
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