Twenty years after the historic call by Coluche on the French radio "Europe 1", the "Restaurants of Heart" still exist and became a true charitable institution. Shot in Strasbourg, during winter, the film shows volunteers who help poor people who receive goods to survive.
What is the relationship between them? What is connecting people to each other? Those are the questions explored by the filmmaker during the winter 2004/2005.
“I see neither forms nor light, nothing, absolutely nothing. But I’m not in the dark, I see nothing“, says Jean-Michel, who is blind from birth, like the other characters in the film.
Dans une maison jaune au cœur de Strasbourg, des gens venus de tous les coins du monde livrent par bribes leur espoir de trouver un refuge suite aux persécutions qui les ont fait basculer dans l'exil. Progressivement, une autre violence va se superposer à la violence passée : celle qu'on leur fait subir, ici, chez nous...
A man in the countryside, accompanied by his valet and his linen maid. Mister is ill, Mister travels, Mister is scared. Nothing can be done. Mister tries to stimulate himself, to react, but his will seems to collide with the strength of madness. Delirium begins.
Several times each year, they are 13.000 Km away from home, in a hospital in Laos. They come from Luxemburg, Strasbourg, Freiburg: they are surgeons, pediatricians, nurses, anaesthetists,...
Alfonso is the founder and the emblematic figure of the Gospel choir: Gospel Kids, which is still growing up and brings together children from Strasbourg's districts.
