March 11^th, 2004: terrorist attacks on Madrid train station. Alice has been living in Madrid for seven months, she is a paintings conservator, specialist on Zurbarán’s works, and she is among the numerous victims. She escapes unharmed from the tragedy which killed more than 200 people. After the drama, Alice is not the same. She enjoyed working on specifics of silk products, brightening up the beauty of the saints from the Allegory of Charity. From now on, she finds her work ridiculous. And the loving relationship she has with Angel, a chef from Colombia, is being called into question as well. She is suffering the “survival guilt”. Soon she is imprisoned by walls of silence, alone with her trauma. She needs to get back to France. But how to do when we are unable to travel by plane either by train? In France, the Spanish drama is now a distant memory…

Sober and intimate, Sarah Manigne takes a close look to the angst of a victim, and questions the pictorial representation of the pain. To what degree is it possible to heal the wounds with art?