Eliane Hess
Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves' relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track.
Luisa
Vitus es un chico que parece llegado de otro planeta: tiene un oído como el de un murciélago, toca el piano como un virtuoso y estudia enciclopedias a la edad de cinco años. Como es de suponer, sus padres le anticipan un brillante porvenir; quieren que sea pianista. Sin embargo, el pequeño genio prefiere tocar en el taller de su excéntrico abuelo, y sueña con volar y con tener una infancia normal. Finalmente, como consecuencia de un inesperado accidente, Vitus tomará las riendas de su propia vida.
Narrator
Groundbreaking psychiatrist and author Elisabeth Kübler-Ross dedicated her career to working with the incurably ill. In this intimate documentary filmed near the end of her life, Kübler-Ross relates her life story, from childhood to her final years. Friends, family members and colleagues weigh in with insightful observations and share their memories of this remarkable woman whose innovative concepts helped spawn the field of thanatology.
