Arthur Mangiapan

"Au regard de ses pensées" traces a moment in the life of a single-parent family living in poverty. Thus, through the eyes and journey of a child creating a gift for an absent mother, "Au regard de ses pensées" reveals a social dead-end imposed from the earliest age and conditioned, primarily, by a lack of attention.

Phil, a young shepherd, doesn't want to take part in the Second World War. However, like all the young people in 1943, he has to go to his Compulsory Work Service in Germany. He hasn't shown up and he is now considered as a recusant.