Focusing on five hospitals in northern Paris neighbourhoods, it reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect everybody in the world.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel's previous collaborations include Leviathan and Caniba, which are exacting cinematic experiences. This film is no exception - it delves deep into human bodies, histories, lives, and truths. Not for the faint hearted - but the content is perhaps what a real documentary actually is.

“A phantasmagorical journey… An eye-opening film... Through these directors’ eyes, these bodies look wondrous and unsettling, macabre and beautiful, and often uncannily unfamiliar.” The New York Times

Warning: contains close-up and graphic medical footage.