Chapter 2 first quarter

A hotel in a small town by the beach in Normandy, which they found in a guidebook.On Friday night, Chantal came to this hotel to spend the night alone.Saturday noon, let.Mark will come to accompany her.Chantal left her little leather bag in her room and went out for a walk.After returning from those unfamiliar streets, she walked into the restaurant of the hotel.The clock on the wall pointed to half past seven, but the restaurant was still empty.She found a table and sat down, waiting for someone to notice her presence. At the other end of the hall, by the kitchen door, two waitresses were discussing something intently and enthusiastically.Not wanting to raise his voice, Chantal got up, crossed the hall, and stopped beside them.But probably because they were too absorbed in their topic, no one noticed Chantal's arrival.Just one of them said: "Let me tell you, it's been ten years since this happened, and I know them. It's terrible! There's not a trace left, not at all. It's even been on TV." Another asked, "What the hell happened to him?" "Nobody could have imagined that, and that's what's so terrible about it." "Is it murder?" "They searched every corner, but No body was found." "Then it must have been kidnapping?" "But who would have done it? And why? He was neither rich nor important. His wife and children And it's on TV because of it. It's heartbreaking, isn't it?"

Finally, she noticed Chantal standing beside her: "Do you know that TV program about missing people? The title of that program is Disappearing in Sight." "Well, I know," Chantal replied. "Perhaps you saw what happened to the Pods. They used to live here." "Yes, that's really terrible?" Chantal said.She didn't know how to turn the conversation from this tragedy to the as yet undecided dinner. "You want a dinner, don't you?" Finally, another waitress asked. "yes." "I'll go to the foreman, please take a seat first."

Her partner still had more to say: "Can you imagine? A person you love suddenly disappears. And you, don't even know what happened to him! It's just mind-breaking!" Chantal returned to the table.Five minutes later, the head waiter came over.She ordered a cold meal, simple as that, she didn't like eating alone, oh, how she hated sitting and eating alone! She sliced ​​the ham on the plate.But her emotions aroused by the two waitresses still couldn't calm down. In this world, our every move will be monitored and recorded.When shopping in a department store, the lens of the camera is watching you; on the street, people are constantly crowded with people coming and going; ("Where do you have sex?" "How many times a week?" "Do you use condoms?") Under these circumstances, how can one escape from the world without leaving a trace? disappear?Yes, of course she knew about "Out of Sight"—the show with a dreadful name, a one-of-a-kind show that struck her with its sincerity and pathos.It seems that some field has also interfered with this program, solemnly asking the station to abandon this frivolity, and the host of the show appealed to the audience to volunteer to provide clues that could help find those who disappeared.At the end of the show, they also showed photo after class of all the people who were "out of sight" mentioned in the previous few shows.Some of them have been missing for as long as eleven years.

She imagined that one day, she would lose Jean-Marc like that.She will never understand how she thought of this.She couldn't even commit suicide because suicide would be considered a betrayal, a rejection of waiting, a loss of gratitude.She will be condemned, so she will have no choice but to live until the end of the days that have always been filled with fear.