Alain Cavalier est un nonagénaire enfantin, un cinéaste faisant de son environnement direct un terrain d’évasion. Yves Jeuland a proposé de lui tirer le portrait, un peu "à la manière de". Les règles du jeu : cinq rendez-vous dans le petit atelier. Le résultat : un voyage drôle et sensible avec cette figure pionnière et enchanteresse du cinéma, capable de faire plus avec moins.

Alain is getting older. For years he has been filming his daily life: his partner Françoise, the people he meets, nature and animals, and life in all its splendour and cruelty. Having devoted his entire life to filmmaking, with the camera as an extension of his arm, he has observed the world with a poetic sense of authenticity and simplicity. Otherness, the approach of death, the power of life and the importance of others intertwine as he looks back on his life as a filmmaker and as a man, concealing nothing, and offering a vision of the universality of the human experience.

Part of the "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, Alain Cavalier, filmed and interviewed by Jean-Pierre Limosin in 1995, talks about his life, his career, the movies and the actors (mainly the actresses), why he gave up standard filming techniques to a light process with digital camera,...

The filmed diary of the filmmaker Alain Cavalier. More than ten years of his life and work are covered from 1994 to 2005.

小說作家兼劇作家伊曼妮和電影製作人阿倫相識已超過三十年。他們正準備拍攝一部以前這的自傳為題材，名為《一切順利》的影片。影片內容是有關她的父親要她在其心臟病發之後如「結束它」。阿倫建議伊曼妮親自主演，而他則扮演她的父親。某冬日的早上，阿倫收到伊曼妮的來電，告知他要推遲至春天才可拍攝，因她需要進行一個緊急手術。