Gratitude

Do we have the time to say "thank you" before it's too late? And is gratitude just a form of politeness? Or is it a hidden acknowledgment of the debt that cannot be paid? "Gratitude" is a story that takes us into the depths of memory, into the fragile space between life and dying, and between presence and absence. In a nursing home, Michka, a woman in her seventies, begins her final journey confronting language and memory together, while Marie, the young woman who was her daughter by choice, tries to pull her from the abyss of forgetfulness. A painful internal dialogue, between an incomplete past, a disintegrating present, and a cloudy future without rain. The young speech therapist, Jerome, appears with his calm professionalism, but he quickly becomes a witness to what is deeper than loss of speech: the loss of meaning. Dalfine de Vigan depicts in this novel a faint yet vivid scene, where words slip away, love takes the form of care, and gratitude turns into resistance. A story about endless childhood, about aging that exposes everything, and about the last desire to say: thank you… as it should be.