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«What remains of a person when their home disappears?» This question forms the central thread of the 2025 documentary observation. The film follows residents of a small French town whose houses face demolition due to a new development project. The camera captures not loud protests, but the quiet rituals of daily life: an old man watering roses that won't survive the season, a woman rereading letters in a house that sheltered three generations. Director Claire Denis crafts a portrait not of a place, but of memory made material—in walls, ceiling cracks, the scent of old wood. The documentary genre becomes a meditation on the fragility of human dwelling in a world where everything is temporary.