"They are buried in the cemetery of Tertullian." "First they were buried under a canvas in the crater of a howitzer." "Already this, my small Mathilde..." "In June of 1909 Mathilde was 9 years old," "Manech Langonnet... 10 does it hurt you when you walk ?" "It must have been a friday or saturday." "Mathilde could not remember it anymore." "Do you have friends ?" "Do you want to be friends ?" "Do I smell like a fish ?" "Do you open up your mouth from time to time ?" "I can lift you all the way up of the stairs." "... because the lighthouse's gardian is my dad !" "God you can be so smug, proud, boring !" "Eh!" "Do you want me to kick your ass ?" "when will we go to see the lighthouse ?" "Manech loves Mathilde" "Mathilde loves Manech" " Take that" " But I don't smoke." "Say goodbye to Malthide." "If I reach the bend before the car" "Manech will be back safe and sound." "If I reach the bend" "If I reach the bend before the car He will be back safe and sound." "If I reach the bend" "Good morning." "You were one year older than me" "And now I am older than you." "The dude who gave you the glove was :" "Poux..." "Célestin Poux." "He is elusive," "The detective who found you is called :" "Pire." "Germain Pire." "He hasn't found neither him nor the prostitute from the Corsican." "The papers are lost  but I will not give up." "I still believe in the lead of Tina Lombardi." "I need to be sure." "You know what I mean." "That is why it is very important I can find Célestin Poux." "It is very frustating, you know what I mean." "I miss you so much." "Can we go now Mathilde?" "You will be cold." "Dead in war on june 7 1917." "Thouvenel?" "What do you want ?" "Who are you ?" "Did you call me in ?" "Who are you ?" "The days went by, she still has no news from Célestin Poux." "Mathilde was made down by her sadness." "She come to eat, she will be ill." "Then leave her the best part!" "That sound will finish to make us mad." "At last, on september 15th 1920 in the middle of the night," "The light finally comes on." "Victory!" "Finally I found the guy called Poux," "I send him to you with god and a harley davidson" "Expenses including of course." "Germain Pire" "Célestin Poux, the terror of the kitchen" "Did you do the announcement?" "Mathilde tightened her fists together, so as not to tremble or cry." "She didn't want to look like an idiot." "I didn't witness the fall of your fiance, I was away looking for the farm." "then I was with the belgian, a guy that I met in the Vogues" "He was able to see the difference the Arabic coffee from medecines." "We had big problems when we mixed coffee with coal grains, in order to replace the Dutch tobacco." "The very last time you saw Manech," "Was he still alive?" "You could not miss him, instead of hiding" "He started carving a M in the trunk of a burnt out tree." "He reportedly just had the time to carve in three Ms before being shot down by the albatross" "Albatross?" "Albatross." "Great marine bird, that follows as indolent fellow traveller, to the ship furrowing the bitter abysses." "It is a poem of Baudelaire" "But in 1915 it was also a German airplane, with a machine gun in the vanguard." "So it was not possible to shoot through the helices." "Did you give him a glove ?" "Mmm mmm made of red heavy wool." "I Had a fiancèe who passed all the day weaving me scarfs and gloves, One of my general wears them." "I traded them with gold teeth removed from dead Germans." "I fused them and thanks to them I could buy the Harley bike." "But, are you sure Manech had been killed ?" "One of my friends saw the body and told me with such a bad wound" "It was not worth it to go and get him..." "Among the 5 prisoners, I saw myself only three of them." "I surrender...." "I surrender... do not fire !" "Have mercy !" "I surrender." "Let me come back." "I am on your side !" "Mercy!" "I am not French!" "I am from the island Corsica !" "I have nothing against Germans." "Poor man." "So he is not french right ?" "Therefore We will cancel his birth certificate." "One soldier of us settled him." "Thouvenel" "A hard man who was fast on the trigger, with heart made of stone and a sharp vision." "Poor man." "Do you enjoy your dinner really ?" "I am a easy man, I would kill all the members of my family for a stew." "Don't worry, he is an orphan." "Also I would do that for truffle purée." "I love truffles indeed I come from..." "Wait a minute!" "Who saw him dying ?" "The one who had been infected by the gangrene." "Six Soux?" "That's him allright." "Mates, before I die" "I have a last will !" "I would like to die standing like a man!" "Come on, Mates, fire at will!" "Farewell to life" "Farewell to love" "And to all the women" "I am done" "That is the end" "Damn war infame here I am done we will be killed they condemned all of us." "and they are going to sacrifice us." "Shut the fuck up !" "What about Bastoche?" "He was hidden in such a good spot," "No one could spot him." "Even in the morning when he answered to his name, no one could guess where he was." "We could believe he is a ventriloquist." "No, he was a carpenter." "All the same, according to what I heard, to save your fiance, he was the reason of fall of the albatross." "The explosion set afire the albatross that it crashed in the German lines." "And what happened to the farmer from Dordoña ?" "He was dead since the very beginning, but that didn't help him for a long time." "Because the germans didn't shot him down with grace from a plane." "When I came back from the farm they already started shooting." "Soon They started to send the bombs." "Those who didn't survive never knew what happened to them." "Your legs are shaking and don't respond." "Your heart is beating bigtime like a terrified animal." "That was at that precise moment I saw the farmer from Dordoña being bombed to ashes." "We must attack before they kill us." "Get your guns ready... what they were told to face was nothing like the real situation." "For France..." "Charge !" "We had left behind the prisoner bodies" "When the submachine guns started firing," "They had been hacked to bits." "Lavrouye kept with him the paper..." "Stretcher bearers!" "A paper?" "which paper?" "He never had the time to tell me." "That night was triple ration of soup." "Favart and Chardolot were making the casualty report." "Because the five condemned appears like soldiers on the battlefield?" "We got the orders." "Tomato Berry." "We go that the soup cools off!" "One is already cold." "So the death of 3 of the 5 prisoners have been witnessed by people." "Young lady high false hope are of no use, they just make you suffer for nothing." "No, it is not false hope." "Do you want to try my plum pie?" "I should not really." "With a little cream." "It is nice to see some people know how to appreciate." "It is better than wasting it." "We all need to rest." "Slowly, slowly!" "You lack of style!" "You can obviously that is the brake." "Mailman raises who I take it until the next mailbox." "I will take it, I have been in the war, I am not civil employee." "We go!" "... it is not my fault, I am asthmatic!" "An asthmatic which rides a bicycle!" "But near the sea." "Of course Ah near the sea!" "Men, They all are kids." "That is allright as long as they don't play being soldiers." "... Tell Berney I will settle everything at the beginning of Mars month." "he sells all the fertilizers too expensive..." "That is not possible that the letter can be about such stupid things." "Don't you think ?" "well, there must be a code." "But we can't solve this code unless with god's help." "What about Bastoche?" "if he had been seen with German boots it must mean he survived..." "Not at all, young lady." "The guy called Gordes did not want Bastoche to leave the trench with the boots of an enemy." "If Germans see you with these boots," "They will realize you stole them from one of them" "So Tina Lombardi gave me a false lead." "The soldier with German boots..." "He was not Bastoche!" "It was Gordes" "He was with a guy almost all the year 1917 a certain Derochette." "I met two stretcher bearers who just went to have a look at them" "Hey you are from Bingo right?" "Maybe ..." "Tell them Gordes had been wound in the head." "And he was wearing a kid who was in worse condition than him." "Derochette called for you he went to the aid station." "With his german boots." "The anarchy lives!" "The anarchy!" "What is wrong ?" "Mathilde ?" "Mathilde open the door." "Be sensible now !" "What did you do to her ?" "Nothing at all" "For three years you knew that Manech was dead" "I called that an obsession." "No, I called that : hope, and Mr. Poux killed it." "Can I do anything to made up with you?" "yes." "Take me to bingo twilight." "You look like a Indian princess on the back of her elephant." "With her group to support her in her sadness." "Here we are." "100 meters from here there was ... the german trench" "But the tree, the calcined trunk, where are they?" "Oh!" "the stumps and all the rest they were used to cover both trenches." "The five men had a bandaged hand, we found them there, 20 meters from here." "under a canvas of earth." "It was not pleasant to see." "I already imagine!" "But the young one looked like a boy." "Do you remember if he was wearing a glove ?" "A red glove, of heavy wool?" "I remember well all of them had a bandaged hand." "but on the other hand they did not have anything, I did not see any glove." "Athos!" "I do not like that she investigates here." "In this zone you may find back some mines." "Athos !" "That fucking shit which can take you away an arm or a leg." "That is the crypt." "There was a church between the German line and ours..." "From that church you can only find a heap of ruin." "Wow I am totally lost!" "I do not recognize anything here!" "It is possible that Manech lost his glove when he fall?" "It was made of heavy wool, it fit very well, and mine lasted till the end of war." "Perhaps he took it away to write in the trunck." "I don't know about that, but I don't think so." "Which kind of red color ?" "Bright red?" "Red intense." "I had one red with white points, it looked like a rotten apple." "Excuse me to accost you like this, but the family of my husband, suffered lot during the war." "and I didn't want that anybody sees me approaching you at the table." "can you understand ?" "What do you know ?" "Before dying, my brother saw your fiancè... craving three letters in the trunk of a tree." "He was wearing a red glove with white points." "a friend of mine told me everything." "When one of our airplanes fired fiancè..." "He fell on the floor holding his stomach." "Right after, ... Hell broke lose." "That day, twice God spared the life of that French soldier." "After, They attacked.." "... they killed my brother!" "he was 23 years old." "I came to see his cross in the cemetery." "I am so sorry." "Time heals everything." "You will see it by yourself." "I must go back to work, or they will start to wonder..." "I can see I didn't totally kill it !" "What ?" "The hope of course." "What happens now ?" "Tina Lombardi." "They are going to guillotine her." "They call her the officer's murderer." "She murdered among others Lavrouye and Thouvnel" "She wanted to kill marshal Piton." "When I think that you used a wheelchair to wind me up." "You are the only person I accepted to talk to." "... because I think we are alike." "Well!" "Leave them alone." "What I did, I think you could have done it too." "No, I don't think so, I would have been scared shitless if I was in your shoes." "I am not scared." "I do regret nothing." "Except maybe my hairs." "Before they will execute me, they will cut all my hairs" "I will look like Joan of Arc when I am back with my angel." "And about Marshal Piton, why did you want to assasinate him ?" "He was the one to have the idea to throw out the trench the mutilated soldiers." "And Why notPoincare, he denied them the grace of sparing their life." "You didn't know, did you ?" "He gave them the grace of sparing their life." "The five of them." "A permission is single." "Lavrouye kept with him the paper..." "Why would Lavrouye do that?" "Because pigs behave like pigs!" "You don't have to look further." "But don't worry, I took care of him." "We have had same investigation." "We just did it in a different way" "Looking for some veteran of bingo  I eventually got contact with a nurse who heal my Ange and the other condemned men." "That guy called Philippot, he is sure he met the five condemned men." "One was a strong man with a wound on the head." "He was a strong, wounded boy in the head, used German boots." "According to him , He was wearing German boots." "He was having a young thin man on his back too." "I believe that if..." "I am sure of what I am saying strong man wounded on the head." "I adviced him to shut up his mouth." "You better than anyone could understand the hope that I felt." "But just after I stopped having my illusions." "Sergeant Favart." "He told me how that asshole Thouvenel killed my Ange." "With one shoot." "I took care of him too." "I just wanted one thing" "To eliminate all those people who hurt my Ange." "Your Angel left that for you." "Revenge is useless, try to be happy" "Don't waste your life because of me, Your angel." "... Gordes, It was you who swapped the German boots with Bastoche..." "Was He strong?" "Biscotte?" "No, he was not athletic, He was like you or me." "And you know nothing about Jean de Desrochelles ?" "Desrochelles?" "Oh yes he was not very sociable, I believe that he lives alone with his mother." "I am sorry but I have to leave you, I leave within one hour for Venezuela." " Good luck Célestin." " You too." "When I think that you hide yourself the grace of PointCarre from me" "It would have been of no use of opening up an old wound Trust me." "I have a last favor to ask you Pierre Marie." "I suppose that it will have to do with bingo." "Son of the bookseller Paúl Desrochelles died in February of 1897." "Jean Desrochelles that is!" "Wait, yes in Somme." "yes very good." "Thanks." "tell me Mr. Piere, Tina Lombardi , you had to know what she was planning !" "But the prudent thing was to not cross her way." "By the way, I have a new lead to give you." "Jean Desrochelles" "Survivor of the front of the Somme in January 1917, only one relative to him is his mother." "the widow of Paúl Desrochelles." "22 Rue of vie" "So there is nothing to do right ?" " Did you want to talk to me ?" " Yep" "The friend of my brother I told you about," "He remembered something" "That could be of interest for you." "The two French soldiers who escorted him, that Monday in the morning, they wanted to go throught the no man's land again." "They saw the bodies of the condemned men, one boday was inside of a sort of cavity." "Both of them were surprised." "I don't know if that could be useful." "Thanks." "... Tell Berney that I want to settle everything on the beginning of March" "He sells all the fertilizers too expensive," "You can expect everything from him" "He sells all the fertilizers too expensive," "Well, there must be a code" "Malthide." "The detective called you." "He found nothing in Saenz." "Hello yes ?" "Yes young lady, I listen to you" "Berney?" "That doesn't ring any bell." "No, I know no one with that name." "Benoît Notre Dame fertilized his land with the dung of his animals, he did not buy fertilizers" "Thanks father." "I must decipher this letter." "I am close." "I will be... fooled ..." "Mars... sell... everything" "Say... nothing..." "listen.. to no one..." "Benoît." "Excuse me Sir, the farm at the end of the world?" "It is the last house at the end of the road." "And what if he does not come?" "He will come !" "Don't worry." "Come back in two hours." "Hello Mathilde" "It is dangerous to recuscitate the dead." "When I saw your announcement in the newspaper" "I knew that sooner or later policemen go after me." "But don't worry, I could get rid of you ... but I didn't do it." "Not only you are thief but a pyromaniac!" "I was not able to kill you." "When we had to kill a rabbit or hen, my wife had to do it." "The war has left me without desire." "You already know what I want to hear." "Is Manech still alive ?" "The last time I saw him he was in a bad condition." "But he was stronger than he looked like." "Don't stay together !" "When everything was over, we took the opportunity to sleep, to get back strenght." "What do you want ?" "Notre Dame?" "Soon The guy from Corsica decided to surrender." "Immediately afterwards they killed the soldier from Paris." "After that, your fiancè started carving letters in the trunk of a tree, and then the albatross arrived." "When I woke up again the earth started trembling." "I don't even know what happened ... the only thing that I saw was a hatch that the projectile opened." "For France, attack !" "They entered the no man's land and in the second line they were shot down." "Hours later, I have been awake by voices." "Oh my god!" "Bastoche is dead!" "We cannot leave him here." "We come back later, he won't go anywhere." "Oh Bastoche is dead !" "Look !" "He moves." "That is the kid, he is about to die too." "The explosion destroyed the hatch." "One of the two soldiers came in badly wounded." "Bastoche is dead.... we all are going to die." "He must have been the friend of Bastoche, the one that had get rid him of the German boots." "After eating, I smoked his tabacco." "Then I started to hear again voices." "He is not the kid!" "What the hell is he doing there ?" "And where is the farmer of Dordoña ?" "Sir!" " I am cold." " Calm down." "Although he was seriously wounded, your fiancè wanted to live," "I saw it in his eyes." "I took him over my shoulders and I began to walk by the trench." "He had lot of fever, I could feel him burning on my back." "he was delirious." "He was talking about a heart beating in his hand." "Caporal !" "the hospital is there 500 meters from here." "Do you want us to take your companion in the stretcher?" "No." "If You met some sergeant major of bingo" "Tell us that the Gordes ended up in the hospital with Desrochelles soldier." "Whatever you want dude." "I arrived just before everything exploded." "I must say that to the General Staff didn't find a better idea than mounting the hospital in a hangar full of hydrogen." "The kid has been evacuated." "Will he make it?" "The wound at the hip is not serious, but he has a bad neumonía." "I wrote down his name from his plate." "I can do nothing else." "Good luck." "The handle!" "The handle!" "Please!" "Later came along Berney, on foot." "I could not know if my wife received my letters." "So every day I went to wait for them at the station." "With the money we got after the sale, we bought this farm." "We moved away the furthest we could." "That is for that reason we called the farm at the end of the world." "Good bye" "That s weird there a hollow in the line of life of your hand." "It is normal." "I had been killed in bingo twilight like your fiancè." "if ever you meet Jean Desrochelles," "Keep me posted." "You know where to find me." "Hey Don't be bothered, come in !" "On Christmas day, come in throught the chimney !" "A letter For Mathilde." "Very well." "I'll give it to her later." "If I was you, I would wake her up now." "What is going on ?" "He is still alive !" "Mathilde does not move, no matter what does not move..." "I am coming, Germain Pire" "God I can be silly." "He is still alive but he remembers nothing." "He forgot everything." "His amnesia is total." "He had to learn reading and writing again." "The psychiatrists who treat him since 1917 do not have any hope." "But look!" "I am in good situation to know that.." "... there are as much amnesia as amnesiac..." "Where is he ?" "He just became an orphan for the second time." "He just lost his foster mother." "Pierre Marie, I don't think you know Mr. Piere?" "By reputation." "Nice to meet you." "Mathilde I have to tell you, I will not believe until I see him with his own eyes..." "When Jean Desrochelles was born, his mother was 40 years old and she didn't have any other child" "When gendarmes came by to get him to fortify the front" "She fell into a depression." "one day she received the visit of one comrade of his son, a guy called ..." "Chardolot!" "Chardolot!" "... unfortunately It was indeed Jean" "He had been hit by a bomb, he lived only some hours before dying ..." "I have to tell you ..." "It is possible that the youngest condemned man has swapped his identity with Jean's one." "By swapping their plates." "I think she lost the plot, the day the hospital called her to tell her her son was there." "He is sleeping, I leave you alone." "Hello, who are you ?" "I am your mother." "I am your mum!" "I have carried out an official investigation, Mrs. Desrochelles passed away two months ago." "She had a row with the merchant then She had been run over by a truck," "And that's not a deduction." "We already knew it!" "Come one Madam You don't have be upset." "The lady did not suffer, she died right away." "I don't cry for that." "I am an idiot." "I did not believe you my sweet Mathilde." "Please forgive me." "I should have known it." "What she would remember later about the expedition of Millie the sun, the sky and all the nature was around her." "Being a real woman, she tried to look the best she could." "White color on her forehead." "Wee bit of lipstick for the occasion," "She got her delineated eyebrows, But nothing black to extend her eyelashes." "she knew what would happen if ever she would lose her composure." "We told him about your visit." "We told him a young girl who loved him very much wanted to meet him." "He asked for your name." "He found it very pretty." "He is waiting for you in the garden." "Does it hurt you when you are walking ?" "Do you want to see what I am doing ?" "I will show you later when I am done." "But why do you cry ?" "And Mathilde remained straightened up, supported by the endorsement of the chair, with her hands on her knees she was looking at him." "In the harmony which surrounded them, under the light of the garden," "Mathilde looked at him, ... She looked at him."