Everything was as silent as an aquarium, or as in certain dream sequences. We had expected something more apocalyptic: they seemed simple police agents. It was disconcerting and disarming. Someone dared to ask for his luggage: they replied, “luggage afterwards.” Someone else did not want to leave his wife: they said, “together again afterwards.” Many mothers did not want to be separated from their children: they said “good, good, stay with child.”
