Diciottu, eighteen: a gathering, a journey, which led Marcel Fortini from the village of Centuri in Corsica to the plains of the Pas-de-Calais and the passes of the Vosges, in the trace of the 1914-1918 war in which one of his forebears had fought. A quest for landscapes lived in and crossed.

“It is from a black and white image made at the front in 1915, showing a squad in which one of my forebears appears, and from a postcard written from the trenches, that the small story crosses the large one here, allowing the reader to imagine the destiny of these men who died for France, as the saying goes.”