At first glance, one might believe that this is a family like any other. A trio – mother, father, teenage son. Three characters furnished with shadows, around whom we float, for a moment, as they question their featureless lives.
Benoît, the father, locks himself more and more in his office to browse online, dreaming of changing jobs, helpless in front of this gifted son whom he never wanted. For her part, Sophie, a former swimmer and Olympic medalist, cannot break away from her past as an athlete, until an accident gives her a glimpse of the start of a new existence.
Here and there, the author (this is his second novel) embarks on paths that could initiate an interesting reflection – the reassuring aspect of virtual lives, family wounds that struggle to heal, the theory of butterfly effect and its consequences.
But like these faded lives that nothing seems to be able to shake, the story skims over these questions without altering, leaving us hungry, and with the feeling of having left something unresolved.
big people
Boreal
216 pages