Description :
Buying a house, moving in with a child? A seemingly ordinary everyday life?yet here, it becomes an adventure. The tired old house must be repaired, tamed. The working-class, cosmopolitan neighborhood holds its share of surprises. In this intimate narrative, a determined woman confronts necessity, struggles to exist and to stand tall?even if it means climbing onto the roof to mend, to cut, to bail out. To give herself strength, she summons her tutelary figures: an architect father, her grandmothers Owl and Dragon, dreamlike silhouettes that guide her path. Then there?s the city?never named?traversed through walks inspired by the Situationists, where personal memories echo the collective memory of the urban landscape, evoking the spirit of Walter Benjamin. Somewhere between exploration and introspection, Standing on the Roof (Debout sur le toit), by Belgian author Claire Gatineau, unfolds as a poetic, intimate tale of belonging. A fragmented yet vibrant narrative, where space and time blur, and memory rises in living fragments.