“Verity” and Grief’s Numerous Forms
The actions that Verity confesses to are tragic. But the way to prevent those actions isn’t to force the related emotions into the shadows.

At the farewell ceremony of a recently deceased friend, a young woman recalls how they met a painter that used their life as a subject for his works. A journey between fiction and reality into the mind of a painter, told by a fictional model. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Delachaux, and the lives, wanderings, and creation of his four characters, Naïma, Johan, Vassili and Arthur.
The actions that Verity confesses to are tragic. But the way to prevent those actions isn’t to force the related emotions into the shadows.
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