Originally from Angers, Gilles, 56, is an author and theoretician. This “big, pot-bellied man with graying hair” goes back thirty years and tells us the imperishable memory of his ” thunderbolt “ with Hélène, his wife.
The scene takes place in 1992, in a field, under the crushing summer sun.
• The protagonists
Sculpted body, long blond hair, blue-green eyes… At 25, Gilles ticks all the boxes of the ” handsome guy “. With his shirt falling to his knees and his ripped jeans, he looks like he’s just come back from Woodstock. He always walks around with his guitar, which he sometimes swaps for his Irish flute, and a pinched cigarette between his lips. He knows how to charm girls, thanks to a few notes of blues or compositions by Maxime Le Forestier.
behind his attitude ” hippie “, Gilles conceals a complicated youth. He was kicked out of the family home at 16 by an abusive father, who took the keys to the house from him to ensure he wouldn’t return. Left to himself, he squatted vacant lots with other homeless people. To escape poverty and drugs, Gilles worked “everywhere imaginable” : in factories, in the circus, on boats, in a theatre, in private homes for ironing or gardening. His teenage years “complicated” made him mature and conciliatory. This “adventurer” has traveled everywhere from Europe to the Caribbean Sea.
In his neighborhood of Touraine, Gilles plays the big brothers. This summer of 19
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