"Hi my name is Pascal Latil and the film you are about to watch is my 1st short film." "La dérade won best gay  lesbian film award at the 8th NYC down town short film festival." "And I hope you will like it." "The water is pretty good !" "You should be on your ship , sailing somewhere." "I don't have sea legs." "And yet, it feels good, the sea spray being under the sun hearing the sound of the gulls." "Do you wanna leave ?" "I like this place." "It's been a long time since we came here." "Your mother is gonna wait." "It was at least a year and a half ago." "I wanted to take a book with me, and I forgot." "It was quite sunny !" "You had to insist to bring me here." "As usual I dithered." "Aferwards I was happy." "Things were never the same after that." "Try to sleep now, sweet heart." "Was it Francois who's just called ?" "Yes, he is on the way." "You didn't tell him." "No." "I don't want him to worry." "It's bad enough with you being upset." "This should be him." "Mom ?" "Yes sweet heart ?" "How do I look ?" "Great." "Hi François !" "Everything's alright ?" "Yes !" "How is he ?" "Did he sleep ?" "No even if he's really quite exhausted." "He can't sleep, can he ?" "And he keeps asking about you." "I go see him, and then I will make us dinner." "It is true that I missed you all day long in that bed, it was endless." "I tried to forget everything in sleeping, but I couldn't." "Do you know what I kept thinking about ?" "about that day that we spent here together." "It was a great day !" "Simon !" "Simon, are you alright ?" "Yes, I'm ok !" "Are you hungry, Babette ?" "I'm starving !" "It's smells good !" "What did you make?" "It's pork with honney and curry." "That's the curry I can smell." "I've got a bottle of Bordeau." "That sounds great !" "It will go well with the meat." "Remind me to buy you some place mats." "You haven't got much tableware." "You know that Simon couldnt care less, and I hate shopping." "Never mind, you're such a good cook." "I like it !" "You'll have to give me the recipe." "What's wrong ?" "I have something to tell you." "I have to leave again." "I am sailing back for work in a few days time." "Just like this." "Yes !" "Five weeks." "We are sailing to south Africa." "It is the last time I am leaving for so long." "But I have to, I am under contract." "Did you tell Simon ?" "When I leave for so long, I'm scared scared, that something might happen to him while I'm gone." "Thank goodness he's stronger than he looks." "You know, a little while after I met you," "Simon told me :" "Mom, I'm glad you met François that you know about the two of us because I couldn't bear that if something happened to me, nobody explained it to him." "Always worrying about the others." "It is true that it was not the life I wished for him but I am glad you're here." "Come on, eat before it gets cold." "I can't imagine the way I looked when you told me that you were a sailor." "Me the literature student having an affair with a sailor," "I thought it was a bit of a cliché." "You mean you were scared that I was an stupid." "You can say it.." "I've always seen right through you." "You've always been like an open book to me." "However the way you hid the truth about your condition" "Bingo !" "It could have won you an oscar." "I didn't want to lie to you." "I just wanted us to be happy." "Come on !" "I'm coming !" "Good morning madam, this is doctor Seguin from the cardiology department of Brest hospital." "Yes !" "We have just found a perfect donnor for Simon's heart transplant." "Yes !" "I'll get him ready." "Thank you." "And then, little by little I came back to life." "At the beginning everything seemed to be normal." "You were sailing to South Africa and I was getting better." "I kept thinking about us," "about when we were going to see each other again." "telling to myself that I was fighting for both of us." "And then somebody had to tell me that you never got to your ship," "that it was you, the guy on the highway who was in the crash and that the new heart beating now in my chest, it was your's." "I'd prepared myself to the idea that to live someone had to die." "That it wouldn't be fair." "I used to tell to myself that this person will still living in some way thanks to me." "That's exactly what happened." "Yes but, you are here, and you're not, and I talk to you, and I can't touch you." "Of course you can, I'm right here." "And you know Simon..." "You gave me the best gift ever." "The rest of your life." "This is the dock where I left my ship." "Alright," "I'm going back in for a swim." "Are you coming ?" "Are you sure, you don't want to come ?" "The waters never been so good." "Please, come on..." "You nerver want to and then when you get in you love it." "I'll join you." "In 2010 in France, 15 613 persons were waiting for a tranplantation" "Only 4708 could have one." "Because of the improvement of the transplantation techniques, the demand keeps increasing." "The main reason for the lack of organs is that we don't know the will of our loved ones about it." "A donor can save 4 lives." "Let's talk about it..."