An absent-minded little boy is on a long car journey. He has been confided by the adults from his boarding house to a person he doesn’t know, and he doesn’t know where he’s being taken.

Flashes of the journey and images from his life gradually pop out of the sleepy haze that has overtaken him: the boarding house, sweetened by the protective presence of Sophie, the piano-playing gardener; the ocean beach that he can see from his mother’s apartment, where he lives with her and sometimes stays up all night waiting for her to come home. His elusive mother, who often disappears without warning, and who seems even more mysterious and unpredictable when she returns. The overwhelming love she heaps on her son in brief, flamboyant flashes, leaving the child to wait for, hope for and daydream about her the rest of the time.

This overly good little boy, his mother’s little watchman, dreams of a word where nothing would ever keep them apart.

A poetic and essential text, drawn from the wells of childhood.

Seen through the eyes of the child, who makes up for his mother’s absence with a hyper-active imagination, the crazy love story of a deviant mother and her son, that society wants to set right. A heartbreaking tale of extraordinary filial devotion.