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Pas de yaourt pour les morts
When Tiago Rodrigues' father was in hospital, he was regularly visited by a woman called Teresa. She worked as a volunteer at the hospital and took the time to talk to patients to break their loneliness. Tiago Rodrigues would later discover that Teresa was an actress he knew well.
From his sickbed, his father, realizing he was going to die, began writing a book. According to Teresa, he wanted to mix his experiences as a terminally ill patient with memories from his own life, particularly stories related to his work as a journalist. He then thought of the story of another Teresa, Teresa Torga, an obscure actress and Fado singer suffering from mental disorders, who stripped naked and walked around reciting poems and singing in the nude in one of Lisbon's busiest streets during a demonstration.
After his father's death, Tiago Rodrigues opened the notebook. It contained only a few lines and dots, a few scribbles, like the abstract drawings of a toddler.