ICARE

Icare calls himself a gardener, a baker, a rancher, but he never calls himself a farmer. Icare is a peasant. The land he cultivates is that of Leyssart, a tiny Gironde hamlet where he was born. The life in caravans at the edge of the woods and relentless work reduce Icare to isolation and impose cruel living conditions on him. While waiting for his affairs to prosper enough to allow him to finish his house, he struggles with pain by cultivating a mythology where the mystical power of the wilderness, stranges nationalistic thoughts and his own chivalric dreams mix hardly. Inside his kingdom, Icare embodies the survival of an ancestral way of life and a link to nature that has been abandoned by all