Les Foudroyés

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls

around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and

the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of

debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and

the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above

plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers

him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death throes from cancer and kidney

failure.

A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual

constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant

peddler, whom he had lost seven decades before. In his return to the wonder

and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers

a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him,

menacing and awe inspiring.

Heartbreaking and life affirming, TINKERS is an elegiac meditation on love,

loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.