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Anna emerges from the metro in a Parisian suburb, her bag overflowing with old notebooks. She is tracing the footsteps of her father, an immigrant poet whose verses faded into silence. This documentary portrait is more than a search for roots; it is an examination of memory as a substance that vanishes and reappears, like an image in a darkroom. Director Claude Lefebvre crafts an intimate chronicle in 2025, where a personal history becomes a universal language of loss and hope. Through archives, encounters with people who have almost forgotten, and walks along non-touristy streets, the film assembles a mosaic from fragments of the past. It is a journey into the heart of a family secret, where every discovered document is a key to understanding not just one fate, but the very nature of recollection.