Henri Keller, born in 1933 in Mulhouse, spent more than 30 years of his life travelling from one pit to another.
At forty years old, in the Moroccan desert, this man started to write. He has published two novels ”Amélie” prefaced by Simone De Beauvoir and ”Bou-Bou”, and short stories ”Azougar”. The film makes a portrait of this man, whose strength is both in his lucidity and capacity of irony.
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“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.
Yvette, Léon and the others are between 70 and 80 years old. They live in different countrysides, but each of them is living in the same house for years and years, in the countryside where they are born.
Just like a note book full of words and pictures covering the years from 2000 to 2006, this film bears witness to groups of asylum seekers drifting through Strasbourg.
