2011 • 11' • French
Director(s): Jérôme Plan & Hervé Corbière • Producer(s): Grand Angle Productions • Coproducer(s): France Télévisions • Format(s): HD
SOS, love letters, expressions of friendship… Stuart commits to the sea the emotional outpourings of those who, unlike himself, are not fortunate enough to live on the Channel. Thisseaside English postman receives hundreds of e-mails from all over the world that he prints, puts into a bottle and tosses into the sea. Maybe one day his bottles will fetch up on the beaches of the North Sea, which Wim has been relentlessly scouring for 30 years. This solitary pensioner has found nearly 800 messages in bottles brought to him by the simple chance of the tides. We go to meet two men passionate about maritime messaging: anchors aweigh!