Deeply moved by a 5-minute archival film showing Dunkirk in 1913, a traveler decides to visit and come to know what, 100 years later, remains of a city largely destroyed during the two world wars.
His approach is at once poetic, urbanist, political, vagabond, social, comic, sensual, literary, aesthetic, risky, and so forth, and in 12 trips and meetings throughout the city (following his “original” trip), he tries to grasp something of the special Dunkirk “spirit”, of what remains, what is created or transmitted from one era to the next.