2023-07-25 16:13:44
And there, everything changes
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And there, everything changes…file Landing in the Belgian capital in 1950 when she was not yet 20 years old, Monique Serf fell into marginality, even trying to prostitute herself. It was without counting a stranger whose fortuitous meeting will encourage her to return to her vocation as a singer.
An accident, a meeting, a click, a coincidence, a stroke of madness or a stroke of fate… This summer, Liberation returns to the key moments of a story. And there, everything changes…
She didn’t think it would come to this, Monique, but it’s not a tragedy either. That’s how it was, this song thing didn’t work. And then you have to find a solution when you are hungry. So Monique put on her old gray coat, her glasses where she can only see out of one eye – the right lens is broken – and she went down to the Boulevard Anspach. Make the sidewalk. There’s no shame in that. When she arrived in Brussels in February 1950 to try her luck, Monique was only 20 years old. It was an old cousin, conductor of an orchestra of balalaikas, who welcomed her at first. Well, he wasn’t welcoming for long. And then the balalaikas were not the most lucrative of his activities. Violent therefore, and not very advisable. Monique takes the tangent. She finds herself on the street, not even an adult, in a city she barely knows. Not to mention that she is afraid that the cousin will make her search so she hides. Already, ten years earlier, the little Jewish girl had been taught to be wary of uniforms…
Here’s what’s hanging around, Monique. Who falls into a life of marginality. A one-eyed hotel here, where she will abandon her papers for lack of being able to pay; a good soul
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