Un Conteneur

This is the story of three characters: Josef, The Girl and The Accumulator.
Josef lives alone in his small flat, leading a routine existence. Every day is the same: a bit of gym, cycling to work, pushing boxes and boxes, coming home.
The little girl lives alone too. More worrying for a little girl. She lives in the middle of abandoned containers. But in this heap, she plays, she jumps: she’s at home, very much alive in the middle of this no-man’s-land.
One day, busy imitating a seagull, she discovers a baby in a container.
in a container. Aware that the baby won’t make it if it’s left there, she sets off to find Jose.
Josef to come and help her find a solution.
Unfortunately, in the meantime, the container containing the baby has disappeared.
The little girl will never stop trying to find him.
Elsewhere,
in parallel, there is the Accumulator. It never crosses
others. The Accumulator is alone too. Alone with his computer.
The Accumulator is a head and fingers. And all day long, he’s
commands. And he receives. And he orders again and again. Until he
until he’s swallowed up by all the orders, all the boxes that have been
delivered.
Un Conteneur
speaks of our world, the world of over-consumption
stultifying work, and the life wasted on earning it. It’s about the people who make it
and those who are excluded. It speaks of those who have
and those who have nothing, and vice versa. It speaks of those
It’s about those who live in hiding and whom we hope not to see.
But Un Conteneur is also about the irreducible joy of childhood, friendship and the strength of the collective.