Saturn

"The knowledge that death bequeaths us is not erased. After certain deflagrations, one does not fully inhabit oneself again," writes the protagonist of Saturn. Her father, Harry, tragically died in 1977, when she was a fifteen-month-old girl. In 2019, that girl, now an adult, meets a woman who met Harry during the Algerian war; Memories of her paint a romantic and sensitive young man, the rebellious son of an illustrious lineage of doctors. Exiled from that country in the wake of independence, Harry's family managed to rebuild their emporium of private clinics in France. But the family splendor contained the seed of its own end: Harry's passion for Ève, too beautiful and free for such a bourgeois environment, would shatter into a thousand pieces the relics of a saga eaten away by greed and the thirst for prestige. As she immerses herself in the black legend of her own family, the daughter of Harry and Ève starkly recalls her childhood, marked by the loss of a father she never knew, and reveals how, like him, about to was about to be swallowed by melancholy.