Show: From Eckmühl to Eckmühl

11 rue du Général de Gaulle, Médiathèque de Laruns

Eckmühl is a Breton lighthouse; Eckmühl is also a district in Oran, Algeria. Two places, one family. Mine. A story, that of my grandmother stepping out of her gypsy caravan to take a boat, leaving Brittany and arriving in Algeria. The birth of my father. The confession of a grandmother to her fifty-year-old grandson, the secret revealed, a world of certainty that collapses. The urgency to travel, sweep away the sand, rekindle memory, trace the past. To find that young girl in this overseas France, her encounter with my grandfather, my father’s father... Unless…