Elodie, a nurse described as on the verge of depression and accustomed to nocturnal walks, vanished amid a marital rupture, with reports indicating she had decided to leave Pierre. The disappearance lacks concrete evidence, with no body and no crime scene identified, leaving her fate uncertain—whether she disappeared during a walk, was murdered, or left voluntarily remains unknown. Mathis has since moved hastily to his grandfather's house and changed schools, while Adjudant Nadia questions him about his mother's disappearance, though what he revealed or did not reveal during this interrogation is unclear.
This case parallels that of Aminah, whose father murdered her mother when she was ten years old, with police arriving at her family's villa in the middle of the night. According to Expressen, Aminah described still living with the consequences of what happened, and according to RTS, Delphine Saubaber, author of 'L’enfant de l’ogre', described being haunted by children's faces from such sordid news stories. The connection between Mathis and Aminah's cases, beyond both involving child witnesses to parental violence, is not specified, and it is also unknown what specific evidence led to Pierre's incarceration or whether he is guilty of femicide or wrongfully accused.
I still live with the consequences of what happened.
When I was a journalist, I covered this kind of sordid news story and I remained haunted by those children's faces. I had the feeling of being the scribe of their life and of having left them.