This documentary essay in four chapters confronts the existence of four people (eye surgeon Yves Pouliquen, sculptor Jean-Louis Faure butcher Michel Labelle, and editor and producer Francoise Widhoff). The author approaches each of the protagonists in a different way - to suit "his/her" theme. The surgeon is seen during a normal, extremely demanding day at work, treating a series of patients with whom he still finds time for a few words. The butcher′s work also requires precision to make "incisions" in his meat. The sculptor describes his world in his studio flat, overflowing with books, photographs and paintings in order that he, himself, may create other art objects as a "delivery" of his original existence. The filmmaker exists only as a voice, a medium which takes us round a neglected garden in Chartres and the plundered ruins of a house once owned by her erstwhile colleague - Orson Welles.