La Vie est Belle

This is the story of the quiet disappearance of a public service in France: the telephone box. Barely forty years old and already totally "out".

A private detective, Assoud the Buffalo, feels lonely and is heading for deep depression at the beginning of the Parisian summer. Lucy, a friend, organises a mysterious meeting for him on the banks of the Canal St Martin.

Assoud, known as "The Buffalo", and his sister Louise are private detectives. One day, a mysterious character asks them to carry out an investigation into the places of his childhood in Cuba. In Havana, the siblings find their cousin Mimi Shanghai, and discover an evil beach haunted by a mysterious legend. They then set out for their client's childhood home. When the client decides to join them, they at last discover his face and enable him to come to terms with his past.

Ghosts of the past have come to today's world. They have taken the appearance of human beings and have a story to tell us. A camera mobile phone is always in their field. Through the seasons and the places, they speak about war, about camps, about extermination. They have the duty to get into our memory.