An elderly man moves through a summer day the way one moves through a memory: slowly, with gratitude. Everything seems ordinary. Yet each gesture is carefully performed as part of a final search for freedom.
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Gilles Champion
Jean Cordier
Josiane Champion Magne
Marjorie Cordier
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