Levants

Under the amused gaze of a veiled woman, a man undresses and dives into the river. Furious at this forbidden look, the man pursues her into his home. He, a traveling salesman, travels across the country in a truck filled with boxes, stopping at the whim of encounters. She, mysterious, hides a past filled with pain, a past made of music, stories but also violence – and it is there, somewhere, that lies the reason for his right hand being amputated from its five fingers. During a journey, these two lives will come closer together, and to cross paths with many other lives, many other stories, and many other destinies. So, in the manner of the Thousand and One Nights, several stories and tales will be told follow and sometimes respond to each other, in a modern and eminently politics; stories that spring from past melodies, while bombs explode, to the rhythm of the dissonant chords of life. Without heaviness or moralism, Nicolas Presl addresses and questions themes through these pages as the place of women in a patriarchal society, the influence of the religion, but also the complexity of the feeling of love. Now converted to color, but still without text, Nicolas Presl delivers his work with Levants the most complex to date, but undoubtedly also the finest, due to the number of stories that intertwine there, but also by his gaze, always at a height of a man, who seems to want to understand and say, much more than explain or judge.