Philippe Cabassac had fly-truffled every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence. Stalking the flies that laid their eggs directly over the odoriferous truffles, he'd become a past master in this subtle art. Since the death of his young wife Julieta, however, the truffles came to represent far more than a delicacy for Cabassac's palate: they trigger now an evocative sequence of dream visions in which he and his lost wife enter, on winter nights, a state of intimate and prolonged communion. In this work of true magic realism, dream life gradually overwhelms and replaces awakened existence; revelation, a couple's ineluctable doom.
Set against a fading moment in traditional Provencal culture, 'The Fly-Truffler' celebrates resuscitation. Out of the land's dying language and exhausted customs, springs the dream-induced visions of a life that regenerates both within Julieta's womb and in the incandescent Mediterranean landscape directly beyond.
