Five blind survivors of war teach you to see with your ears — and break your heart wide open.
The film follows five people who lost their sight in armed conflicts, gathering fragments of their present-day lives. Through an enveloping sound composition, veiled archival material, footage shot by the protagonists themselves, and a sensitive visual approach, the film explores memory, perception, and our relationship to the visible. Steering away from spectacle, it invites us to hear what often goes unheard, and to feel differently. In an age saturated with images, this documentary offers a sensory experience where listening becomes a gesture of resistance and human reconnection.
Sound
The protagonists' own recordings reshape documentary audio entirely.
Direction
Plouffe's refusal of spectacle is its own radical visual language.
Director
Simon Plouffe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Plouffe worked with blind consultants for three years before filming, developing a 'tactile cinematography' approach where camera movement was choreographed by sound.
The film emerges from a wave of 'sensory turn' documentaries responding to image-saturated conflict coverage — think Leviathan meets Touch the Sound.
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