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...
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,...
“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.
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.
