Like the number 7 with its head cut off, everything is set in motion to reinvent the magic, to restore the perfect circle, to finally find the number seven and start again as before. Because, some like William and Mona only see Joachim as Samuel’s ghost, which pushes our hero through his blindness to completely mistake him for his missing brother. A grief difficult to come to terms with, because Joachim looks terribly like his brother. A world steeped in the shadows of the past, an initiatory quest, between dream and reality, during which Joachim will have to fight to finally become himself.

We live in a time in which we face increasingly difficult grief. With the depletion of funeral rites, death no longer seems like an event that punctuates the life of the community, but just an individual drama.
This artistic adventure is in my head because it is full of complexities and different challenges. First this period of floating when building a young person, it is riddled with questions, paradoxes and misunderstandings: Making for a wealth of theatrical material … Then, although within them there exists a huge portion of vulnerability, of fragility, there is nonetheless this incredible feeling of immortality, eternity, even invincibility. With such a serious subject, I also wanted to have fun, allowing me to develop a gallery of characters all equally exciting and who will accompany the hero in his quest towards a border between adolescence and the adult world, a gaping hole where madness and excess still play a part.

This text would not be what it is today without the help of Natacha Diet who assisted me for ten years on the dramaturgy of my stories. Finally, I would also like to pay tribute to the work and the investment of the performers: Brice Carrois, Marion Lubat, Julie Roux, Clemence Azincourt, Florent Dorin, Jean-Christophe Legendre and Etienne Durot who, over the course of the rehearsals, enabled this text to find its precision and poetry.