Nastia is back in Ljubljana, the capital of her native Slovenia.
She fled Paris and the art gallery she runs, closed due to the pandemic, in order to take a break, to try to put at bay “
the feeling of abandonment and desolation that has taken hold of her. 'She
".
Her companion, François, has just left her unceremoniously, “
like one leaves a shirt that one has worn too much
”.
His two grown daughters, from a previous marriage, turned their backs on him a long time ago.
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Nastia, “the Parisian” as her younger sister Dora calls her, had also kept her family at a distance, only returning to Slovenia for vacations, like a tourist.
In Ljubljana, she will find Dora, her dear friend Zarja and rent an apartment.
Above all, she discovers a country in turmoil, rising against the autocratic drift of power.
Citizens parade in front of Parliament on bicycles because the virus serves as a pretext for the government to ban all public meetings.
A bittersweet escape
Nastia walks in…
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