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In the trance-like express, Albert strolls - from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and further afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia - around European countries. When he strolls, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. If the reverie of his walking ends, he's kept wondering where he is, with no storage of how he got there. His recent is out there only in fleeting images. Loosely based on the case background of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in a healthcare facility of St. Andre in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who Strolled Away imagines Albert's wanderings and the anguish that triggered him to get treatment with a doctor who would develop a prognosis for him, a narrative for his pain. In a period when mental health prognosis is still as much art as research, Maud Casey takes us back to its tentative beginnings and offers us an intimate romance between one doctor and his patient as, jointly, they try to reassemble a lost life. Through Albert she gives us a portrait of a man untethered from place and time who, regardless of himself, kept setting out, again and again, in search of question and astonishment.
