The Tenant in the Trees

Accroche :
He moves into a plane tree on the Quai. Coming down is no solution: it is an oath.

Texte :
At the counter of the Régie Copricoco SA in Vevey, Côme Pavillard hands in his hundred and fourteenth application for a flat: incomplete, as always. So he moves into a plane tree on the Quai, rigs up ropes and becomes the tenant in the trees, watched by a letting agency that bills even the shade. Around him, a fête too big for itself, a deficit budgeted in advance and a band with a repertoire of two pieces. A satire of Romandy that houses the void, in which coming down to earth is no solution but an oath, kept one branch at a time.