That day in 2009, standing along the shoreline of Brazil's festive Ipanema Beach was (as close as) the Soulases could come to the spot hundreds of miles offshore where 24-year-old Caroline Marie and Sebastian Vedovati, 34, had taken their last breaths.
"You are crying, you are praying, you are thinking about your child, while beside you, you can hear people laughing and (playing)," said Robert Soulas on the phone Wednesday from his home outside Paris. "It was not a good country for grieving -- for crying."
The Soulases' daughter and her flight attendant husband were among the 228 victims aboard the Airbus A330 which disappeared from radar between (South America) and Africa en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. In the two years since the crash, the Soulases say they've been haunted by the pain of not knowing why the plane (went down).
