Noise in the sky

October 2020. David Prudhomme returns to the family home in Grangeroux, near Chateauroux. He remembers that morning in January 1981 when, for the The first time his parents showed him the place where they were going to live. That day, David discovered a simple wasteland with nothing around it, with, in instead of a house, a hole. No more football and bike races with friends at the foot of the ZUP 2 building in Chateauroux. Even if they only drove 7 minutes, they are in another world. A year later, the whole family moves into the pretty house finally built in the middle of the horizon and... the former American military base, built in 1951, next to the warehouses NATO that serve the whole of Europe. The feeling of living in the countryside is contradicted by the noise of the reactors of Iraqi cargo planes which, between 81 and 89, take off loaded with weapons sold by France to Saddam Hussein then in war against Iran. Throughout the pages, David Prudhomme tells us about 40 years of a provincial territory grappling with the changing world, whose jolts end up shaking everyday life. 40 years during which the Little David will become the author David Prudhomme.