Empty Hours

In an institution for the elderly on the outskirts of a small village in the south of France, residents try to form a society within an anonymous environment, often perceived as hostile. What bonds do they still manage to forge? What remedies do they find to alleviate the omnipresent loneliness? What does this reveal about the intimate relationship we have with life as we approach death? "Empty Hours" brings visibility to underrepresented people and bodies, to ageing bodies that are very much alive, and attempts to reveal the irrepressible life force that lurks, often secretly, at the heart of this antechamber of death.