L'Homme Triple

At the end of World War II, the Dutch poet Ferdinand Vercnocke was sentenced to ten years in prison for collaboration with the Nazi regime, then released in 1949. In the Vercnocke family, this dark past, even after Ferdinand's death in 1989. The only memory that Wide Vercnocke had of his grandfather was that of a face frozen by death... His Grandmother often told him that later, when he was older, he would understand... But today, Wide is an adult and he still doesn't understand not. Worse, noting the physical resemblance between him, his father and his Grandfather, he wonders if this heredity extends to other areas. Would he bear any form of responsibility for the actions committed by his grandfather? The conception of The Triple Man took four years, nourished by intense contacts between Wide and his father, during which all two were confronted not only with this past, but also and above all with themselves and their relationship to each other. In The Triple Man, Wide Vercnocke approaches this personal story with his unique and distinctive voice: poetic, stylized, mixing autobiographical elements and magical realism.