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.
Both an administrative endurance road and a protest march, it's a sad escapade of isolated persons and families seeking shelter and recognition. Whenthefamiliar placesof thecitybecomethe sceneofsocial distress,hauntedbytired bodies and lost looks.
Every year, in Munster, in the region of Alsace, a ball with a strange name takes place: the Widows' Ball. Disguised and masked, women are the ones who invite men to the dance.
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,...
August 1999,mypartner, a photographer,notices a maninahospital.The dayof theeclipse,sherecognizesthe manin thecrowd andtakes photos of him, withhispermission...
