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One day, Erwin Verschote leaves the city to start a new life in the countryside. He ends up among colorful characters. There is Marre, the stubborn farmer's wife who gives him a room on her property, Alma, the generous village dressmaker, and Antoine, the celebrated actor. And then there is Modest, the head-footer. He has been dead for three months, but he still comments extensively on Erwin's life. In this way, we learn that Erwin is not the freebooter he thinks he is. Before he knows it, he has entered the world that his father fled just after the Second World War, a place full of unprocessed stories and unanswered questions. For example, who was Elza and what happened to her? In Head-footer, the imagination is in power. Kristof De Muynck conjures up a world in which the past continually intrudes on the present, history takes revenge across the generations, and beautiful young girls could just as well be horses. Kopvoeter is a fairytale family novel, as shocking and intriguing as it is hilarious.