Without him, without her. Living after the death of a child.

For most parents, loving a child is stronger than death. However, life must go on after the loss of a child who has gone forever… A taboo subject which frightens people and turns them away, we generally think that it only happens to others. Nevertheless, at any moment, a family can be hit by what can be conceived as the worst of all possible dramas.
This documentary proposes a vision of families who have lost children and how family members can rebuild after the disaster which constitutes the death of a child. Tracing a period of a depression the family undergoes facing this terrible injustice which causes anger, despair, renunciation, director Claude Couderc tries to show how, little by little, the life of the family resumes in the wake of the beloved ones absence. He also shows how some parents choose to break with the commonplaces surrounding the death of a child : for example, the fact that mourning should be a necessary or imposed process. Claude Couderc follows the stories of several families who have lost sons or daughters in car accidents, through illness or suicide.