In the abandoned villa that looks out over the bay of Roquebrune something remains of its former owner, Albert Kahn, and of the mad undertaking to which he devoted his life: gathering and saving the pictures of the world. Discovering that the house is bound up with her earliest recollections, Hélène Gaudy goes back to revisit the places of childhood, weaving a net of correspondences between those remains and the people who lived among them.