A diving accident shatters a life. The real miracle? Finding laughter in the wreckage.
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.
Acting
Non-professional disabled actors bring devastating authenticity.
Writing
Grand Corps Malade adapts his own slam poetry memoir.
Direction
Two first-timers capture institutional claustrophobia without pity.
Director
Mehdi Idir
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