Sinon2023
Solliès-Pont, France, 1865. In the suffocating heat of a Provencal summer, a shadow falls across the garden of the Leblanc family. Timothée Castellan, a traveling "magnetizer," promises a miracle cure for Josephine's nervous ailments. But as his hands weave patterns in the air, the cure becomes a curse.
Witnessed through the terrified eyes of those who knew her-her sister Marie, the village blacksmith, and a local priest-Josephine begins to disappear. She is no longer a daughter or a sister; she is a Somnambulist, a living statue bound by an invisible leash. Under the "Silver Fog" of Castellan's voice, she is forced into a journey of hollow obedience, her body stripped of its will and her mind locked in a cage of silence.
As the village watches in horror, Josephine is dragged across the countryside, a prisoner of a "Dead Strength" that defies nature. It will take a landmark trial and the cold lens of science to prove that a crime has been committed-not with a blade, but with a snap of the fingers.
"The Silent Puppet" is a haunting true-crime reimagining of the trial that forced the world to recognize the terror of a stolen soul.