C’est une vieille demeure qui compte, dit-on, 6999 portes, 3150 fenêtres et 24 kilomètres de couloirs. Des caves aux greniers, le personnel de la maison s’y affaire à toute heure, pendant que les murs résonnent de ce qui se juge ici, enfants battus, trafics, terrorisme, crimes de sang…
Located on the île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine, the Paris Law Court looks like an impenetrable fortress. Like Kafka’s castle, it guards its secrets well. It is the place of power. The filmmaker, who worked there for several years as a crime reporter, is extremely familiar with its labyrinthine spaces, its practices, its ceremonies. She comes back to it now, while the Courthouse, such as she knows it, is about to disappear: its relocation is planned in 2017. So, she explores it, camera in hand, on the traces of her experience.
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