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Rocco and Irene are busy doing nothing and performing modest things. They live in a post-industrial environment that has been marred by the industrialization of the twentieth century, yet they also find and produce beauty.

Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an unparalleled path in modern art.

In the later part of his oeuvre, the famous Japanese filmmaker Yasujirô Ozu looks at the society of post-war Japan through family stories from the lower middle class. Arte has compiled a decalogy of 10 films from this period from the director's creative work. This short documentary film, created in this context, explains the film works using fragments of Ozu's notes, which he wrote between 1933 and 1963, elegant drawings and film clips. A fine insight into the themes and aesthetics of this moving cinema about intimacy and the passage of time and a fascinating journey into the moving final part of the Japanese master's work.

Fable like opera. A woman has a bizarre chance to reverse her son's death: find a truly happy person and the child will be restored. But the people the woman meets, a composer, a collector, an artisan, don't seem happy at all.