Signes de vie

A camera crew spent three weeks in a hospice in Brussels. That is where terminal patients end up after medical treatment has been stopped; most have cancer and only receive morphine. Freed from all the hypocrisy and false hope, they reflect on their lives and try to make something of the last few days.Patients, relatives and nursing staff talk open-heartedly to the crew. In the respectful approach that the makers adopted, the ones left behind are just as important as those who are going to die. Breath of Life is therefore an intimate film about the most difficult farewell, about life and death, about despair and desire.