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At the farewell ceremony of a recently deceased friend, a young woman recalls how they met a painter that used their life as a subject for his works. A journey between fiction and reality into the mind of a painter, told by a fictional model. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Delachaux, and the lives, wanderings, and creation of his four characters, Naïma, Johan, Vassili and Arthur.
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FR

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.