A portrait of José Saramago built from the Nobel prize winner's reflections on memory, literary creation, the passage of time and the finitude of life.
This "documentary opera" retraces the events that shook the suburbs of Toulouse at the end of 1998. Caught red-handed stealing a car, young Habib, also known as Pipo, was shot at point-blank range by a police officer. Serious riots ensued, pitting gangs of young people against the police for...