L’Aubier

How do we carry the past when memory begins to splinter, when daily words and faces elude us while the distant past haunts and torments? And where are the safe places for our elders in a society with no patience for the slow and the old, a society that sees them as products for an industry of ‘care’ that exists first for its share-holders?

Questions weave through l’Aubier as Isabelle Llasera explores the final stages of her mother’s life in a residential home. Dignity? Memory? Identity? Responsibility? So many questions society needs to face if we are to retain humanity.