Where Stars Fall

August 12, 2022 — their personal day X, which turned for the two of them into a harrowing ordeal.

On a clear morning, the spouses experience a rare feeling of absolute happiness — they are gliding on paragliders above a shining valley. It seems their life is just like that of any couple in a successful marriage: calm, trust, joy side by side. Cédric and Mathilde are people who love life, the mountains, and each other with all their hearts.

But Cédric loses focus for a moment — and that is enough for Mathilde to vanish from sight. Where is she? Did she crash onto the rocks? Is she still alive?..

Without pausing for breath, Cédric rushes to where her paraglider may have fallen, terrified to even consider that this flight could become Mathilde’s last...

In this honest, searing book, Cédric Sapin-Defour tells the story of his wife Mathilde — of love that does not give up, of the accident that divided life into “before” and “after,” of the long months of recovery, of tears and pain, and finally, of hope.