Remember to water the fig tree

Birgitta Lagerström has a house in the small village of Peyrefitte du Razes in southern France near the Pyrenees mountains. She and her husband Dag travel around among old Cathar ruins and sunflower fields or sit on the terrace underneath the white roses and vines with their crosswords and newspapers enjoying the silence, only interrupted by bees humming and birds singing. Reading daily papers, her quiet life mingles with the world’s everyday horrors while writing about her peaceful village. You will get to know it and some of its residents living next to the medieval town of Mirepoix, an exciting cultural centre, and also find out who killed the shoemaker’s beautiful wife, whose body was found buried under the fig tree.