Love Me Tender

“I don't understand why the love between a mother and a son shouldn't be exactly like any other kind of love. Why shouldn't it be possible to stop loving each other? Why shouldn't it be possible to end the relationship? I don't understand why it isn't possible to be completely indifferent to love once and for all.”

Constance Debré continues the search she began in Play Boy, a search for meaning, for a truthful life, for a good life. After the question of identity comes the question of our relationships with others and of love in all its forms, from maternal love to variations of infatuation. Must we accept everything that happens to us in order to be free? Must we be able to accommodate everything, even our own defeats? Can grief be reversed?