Instruments of a Beating Heart

April, a 5-year-old English girl, moves to Paris just before the first lockdown. She feels miserable, isolated in her Parisian flat and desperately wants to go back to London. However, when the restrictions ease, her father drives her to Labastide d'Armagnac, a small medieval village in the South-West of France where her great-grandfather bequeathed them his house.

April is not much happier at first in the deserted village but slowly discovers it. She visits the cemetery where she thinks people are just asleep. On her great-grandfather's grave she brings flowers, talks to him and strongly believes that he might eventually come back to be with her.

She will make several wishes for this purpose, in church and also in the Pyrenees mountains, waiting for a falling star, as she has seen in Pinocchio. In the meantime, she meets some of her great-grandfather's friends. With them she will open to the world,

April, a 5-year-old English girl, moves to Paris just before the first lockdown. She feels miserable, isolated in her Parisian flat and desperately wants to go back to London. However, when the restrictions ease, her father drives her to Labastide d'Armagnac, a small medieval village in the South-West of France where her great-grandfather bequeathed them his house.

April is not much happier at first in the deserted village but slowly discovers it. She visits the cemetery where she thinks people are just asleep. On her great-grandfather's grave she brings flowers, talks to him and strongly believes that he might eventually come back to be with her.

She will make several wishes for this purpose, in church and also in the Pyrenees mountains, waiting for a falling star, as she has seen in Pinocchio. In the meantime, she meets some of her great-grandfather's friends. With them she will open to the world,