Fallen Heroes

Forty yearold Bruno Ledeux seen sitting across from the doctor gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet oldCondemned to remain nothing more than a son he begins his downward slide as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape Bruno can never have children He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne his beloved wife Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents A mediocre man who has lost all pride Though now everything appears hazy in his memory Like a river that flows peacefully showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below But at times those currents can return to the surface Without warning