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Romain VIDAL (Coteau: 1981 - 1985)

02 September 2023 Older / Former

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At the end of August 2023, the book written by Romain Vidal (Coteau: 1981 - 1985) was published.

It all boils down to this sentence from Romain:

"I just wanted to tell her my love."

At first, there were years of indifference and hesitation, perhaps even regret, between a man and his son. Then the first muted steps towards each other. And finally, at the end of the road, the one and only I love you of a lifetime.

Today, Romain Vidal is 56, and his father's death from Covid remains shrouded in mystery. We discover that the singer died alone, in precarious conditions. That, for ten years, Romain had forged an increasingly intimate bond with him, and that he was nevertheless kept at a distance during the last moments, along with other close relatives.

Was he a threat, having never asked for anything? Devastated, he embarks on a frantic search for his history. He pulls up all the secret threads of Christophe's personality and goes to meet his cracks, his frightening solitude. So close to his own wounds. Like father, like son. And what if that was the moral of this violent yet tender story?