Ruben Jespers

Marcels life is very consistent. Every day very much looks the same. There are two things in life that are very important to him: serving a cup of coffee to the local garbage man and taking care of his plant. He lives a peaceful life until week 97 has arrived and suddenly his life takes another turn...

At the age of ten, a young Napoleon Bonaparte thinks his parents are finally coming to take him away from the terrible school where he is being bullied. But because he has been skipping classes while waiting, he is now locked in the vacant dovecote on the French estate as punishment. What begins as a coping with a lack of affection and his own loneliness spills over into an escape into poetic reverie; associative scenes that expose his deeply held feelings.