"La Madeleine” is a working class neighbourhood west of Nice. Sami Lorentz left it 20 years ago…

Today, he returns to get together with those he knew in the past, those who shared the last years of his mother’s life: the café owners. Far from living a golden retirement on the Côte d'Azur, Scoffier, Tonin, Poupon and Marinette, are dependent on the fate of their family business.
There is no way they can afford to serve a final round and close up. What’s more, with the desertification of local shops and businesses, these senior workers of the fourth kind have also become the last guarantors of a "neighbourhood life" that disappears.

Together with his filmmaker wife, the director immerses us into their daily lives, revealing a human comedy made of small worries and grand designs. A return visit that looks at the importance of roots, social ties and memories.
A film on family made by family.

AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING: French version only