Michel Schopfer

In preparation for a feature-length film about windmills, an assistant director travels through the Vaud region to search for locations with windmills. The research leads to a serious engagement with the meaning and purpose of windmills, which has something Don Quixote-like about it in the age of nuclear power stations. The transitions between document and fiction flow constantly and result in a charming and intellectual mixture of seriousness and fun, determination and coincidence, weightlessness and the weight of meaning.

It's summer and Antonin is on his way to visit the father he has not seen in fifteen years. Accompanied by his friend, a cameraman who will film the reunion, he leaves the city for his childhood home – where fifteen years earlier his father had kicked his mother out of the house.

Antonin pays a visit to his father whom he hasn’t seen for fifteen years. He asks a friend and cameraman to accompany him because he wants to make a documentary of the encounter. Very quickly, everything gets out of control: his film and his relationship with his father, which he had been planning to patch up.