In a world torn apart by incessant conflict, on the brink of collapse, a family flees an unknown virus called "summer flu". It is obviously not coronavirus, but the coincidence is still striking. Especially since the album was released on March 4. In Jungian language, we would readily speak of a surprising "synchronicity".
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At the heart of this America on the brink, cultivating an air of resemblance to that of the cult novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the hero, Liam, tries to live a family life as normal as possible. Everything suddenly collapses when the virus ends up sweeping away his wife, a nurse, who succumbs to the heart of a hospital in the throes of chaos, saturated with patients and doctors overwhelmed by the scale of the events…
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"In La Chute , society is attacked by a virus whose dangerousness is not understood from the start," says Jared Muralt. With his two children, Sophia and Max, the hero will have to face a world in free fall where violence
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