A docu-fiction on the city of Béziers
March 2014. After a life of work, Houria returns to Béziers, the city of her childhood. She soon understands, in the deserted streets, that nothing is like before. Even happy memories do not manage to give meaning to a disoriented city that four contenders for the mayor’s chair are fighting over. And while speeches clash to dress up reality, Houria is suddenly confronted with her own words, when she was just a little bearer of bad news…
This book is designed around a unique interactive articulation, for an immersive reading, halfway between reality and fiction. Through a horizontal slide, the reader follows Houria’s story. By a vertical slide, he switches to the other side of the story and accesses the audio and visual enrichments of the book.
Back to Béziers is part of a transmedia project: Place Publique, which includes François Rabaté’s documentary, produced by La Générale de Production for France 3 and La Chaîne Parlementaire, Sébastien Calvet’s photographic work and Didier Daeninckx’s story, also published in paper format by Verdier Publishing.
Awards
- Prix du livre numérique 2014
