Her name is Elena, like the late Romanian communist harpy Ceausescu.
She gave her husband the nickname Nicky (it was that of Tsar Nicholas II) and is very worried about the health of her 10-year-old son who is epileptic (like the Tsarevich).
Except it's not his son!
This behavior is not the only strangeness manifested by the chancellor of the country which she leads with an iron fist in an iron glove.
For example, Mrs. Vernham cannot tolerate the slightest trace of humidity in her palace.
To the point of recruiting a slightly nervous corporal from his army (he shot at workers who were demonstrating) to go ahead of her everywhere with a hygrometric measuring instrument.
This thick brute who spends his nights flagellating himself will little by little become his trusted man.
His advisor.
His quasi-prime minister.
Her platonic lover.
An ascent that will make victims and people jealous.
And will take him to prison.
Temporarily.
Also read: Our review of the film In the Skin of Blanche Houellebecq: the possibility of laughter
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