A first-person film that questions the disappearance of a father incarcerated, a village submerged underwater by a dam, and a connection to a country lost through absence and immigration. It explores the way back to all that has disappeared, delving into family ties and personal healing.
Khammar, a 72-year-old garage owner in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, considers his garage his home and its frequent customers his family. Friends and customers mingle there, coming for repairs as much as for coffee. Now, faced with the prospect of retiring and leaving his beloved garage, Khammar resists the change. Khammar is my father. After 30 years apart, we have reconnected and slowly tamed the distance between us. When I asked him to come with me to Morocco, the country of our origins, he accepted. He hadn't been there for 20 years and wanted to see Casablanca again and sell a flat he still owned to buy a small house in the south of France. I want to see my parents' home village, which has now disappeared, submerged by a dam lake.
