Aix-Marseille Université - Master professionnel Écritures Documentaires

In the Hautes-Alpes, Jeff breeds, cares for, and slaughters his own animals. He joined forces with other farmers in a peasant-run slaughterhouse. He accompanies his livestock until the very end, performing the slaughter himself.

“Our memories are marked by smells. Bound together by their olfactory sensitivity, a daughter leads her father to question his family heritage: together they go through their double mourning, that of a grandmother and a childhood in Algeria. How do you face up to the fear of vanishing ghosts?”