Breaking down
barriers

This is the amazing story of Ion, a visually handicapped man born under Ceausescu's regime in Romania. Thanks to his extraordinary hearing skills, he works today for the phone-tappings department at the Belgian federal Police. In parallel, the film explores the exodus and the beautiful but dramatic conditions in which Ion, his blind wife Maria and their young boy Ciprian, had to face in the past for hoping living in peace and freedom. This film raises an important question for us, parents of different children: how do we part while the situation imposes, in essence, the hand-to-hand fight? If the baby kangaroo leaves the pocket at a certain moment, the handicapped child stays longer in the lap of his/her mother. The stake being then to dare to push him/her gently out. On his/her part, the child also has to prove to his/her mother that (s)he can become independent. It is a long and complex process... One back and forth ceaseless way between the inside and the outside of the pocket that only the end of one life stops.