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A man and a woman meet. She is French, he's Japanese. The couple separate and, ten years later, the woman goes to Japan in search of one last image of her lost love. In a temple buried under the snow, the man and woman share a daily life filled with their past history.
Manon has been a defendant in the Tarnac case for ten years, accused with eight other people of participating in a terrorist undertaking while sabotaging high-speed lines in France. As their trial approaches, I’m taking my camera to join the group of women who helps Manon preparing her defense.
The incessant rain erodes the earth, its material collapses, nothing remains of the landscape but long and narrow pillars that rise against an immense sky. On one of these islands, a survivor is stationary, clinging to his umbrella, his only weapon against the downpour. In the narrow confines of this tiny stage, individuals will be forced to live on top of each other.