Brothers

During the summer of 1966, Sirius and Regulus Black, aged 6 and 5, escape from their family home in France and hide in the forest. They lived there alone for six years before being found. This fact, which they kept secret from their friends and new family, consumed them from the inside, trapping them in the sole understanding of each other.OrWhen Regulus Black, 47, learns in a phone call with a mysterious man with a Welsh accent that his brother Sirius, whom he hasn't seen in decades, has disappeared while taking his passport, Regulus drops everything and sets off to find him in the wilds of Abitibi, Canada. But what he finds is a sad man looking for meaning in his life. By saving Sirius, Regulus may have a chance of saving himself. But it remains to be seen who will be the more convincing of the two, in the chess game that is life...

For this fic, I was partly inspired by the French film by Olivier Casas, itself based on the true story of the brothers Patrice and Michel de Robert de Lafregeyre, who were abandoned by their mother in the summer of 1949 at a holiday camp and who fled into the forest after discovering the owner's hanged body, the elder being convinced that he had killed him. They were 6 and 5 at the time and survived seven years alone in the forest. For French-speaking readers of this fic, I absolutely recommend that you see the film ‘Frères’.TW:- mention of suicide (someone hanged)