L' 8 Decembers 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby – age forty-three and editor head of the bucket of way of world-wide reputation Elle – were living the & amp; quot; good life& amp; quot; all' end when she has become the victim of a devastating cerebrovascular incident that has left it in a condition of the paralysis total, incapable of any oral communication, in what is known in the medical community like & amp; quot; syndrome.& amp blocked; quot; Its faculties lie them completely intact since place piece of real estate in its base all' marine hospital of the Berck-sur-Mer in France of the North, Bauby has learned to communicate with the external world for means of its eyelid of left, l' only part of its body over which still it has had all the control. During the fourteen next months, using a code of communication developed from its terapista and its publisher& #039; l' assistant of s, that she has transcribed this code, Bauby could compose, letter for letter, a lyric and heartbreaking memory of its fight of life. Bauby is died in 1997, the two days after the relative publication. While the film is opened, Bauby, known like Jean-Make to its intimate ones, exits from a coma deep of three weeks, unaware of of what it is happened, of what is igniting around he and where it is. What we see is a person not that it is found in a hospital bed, but un' vague image with some siluette that they move within and outside of it. & amp; quot; What& #039; s that it ignites? & amp; quot; we ask and so as to we make Jean-Dominique, in a comment outside field (Mathieu Amalric). L' image soon will become clearer and understands that we are observing subjective, from Jean-Do& #039; point of view of s, to a hospital room. Soon, the forehead of a man who identifies itself like Dr. Mercier (& amp of Jean-Philippe; #xC9; the coffey) it appears in our field of vision, making the questions. Jean-Make the answers, but its answers are not understood from the doctor, like Jean-Make cannot speak: we are only feeling its inner voice. The suspense it is developed like the patient& #039; the forehead of s is revealed progressively. In the first instance we obtain un' glance of Jean-Do& #039; forehead of s that it reflects in a mirror as is pushing in the great corridor dell' hospital. Its reaction to its reflection is, & amp; quot; God, who& #039; s that one? I observe as I have exited from a vat of formaldehyde.& amp; quot; Effectively, it demands before approximately thirty minuteren in the film that we obtain to see Bauby&amp clearly; #039; the s it has storto, frozen forehead. The assistants dell' hospital total to its medical attendance and well-being, comprised are introduced Jean-Make, assuring it of their dedication its terapista of speech, Henriette (Marie-Jos& amp; #xE9; and Croze), than will teach the communication code to it, its fisioterapista, Marie Lopez (Olatz L& amp; #xF3; pez Garmendia) and Dr. Lepage (Patrick Chesnais), a neurosurgeon who will watch Jean-Do& #039; cure of s. Besides the hospital& #039; the square of the terapista of s, is moreover C