A moving tale about the enigmatic father figure.

September 2018, around 10pm. There's a documentary on Vichy France on TV. Two members of the Gestapo are leading a hand-cuffed man out of the building where Régis Jauffret spent his childhood. The man is his father. Just another anonymous victim to most, but that eight-second sequence viewed again and again by the author was enough to awaken the child hidden deep inside. It took all the pages of this book to restore the memory of the deaf, bipolar father he had been so ashamed of.