An easy audience-hungry production shoots a film about Voltaire. Led by a crazy team, the shooting quickly becomes the place of the word and the fable in which the child Candide, rocked by events, can only observe how vain it is to seek to justify the disorders of existence.
Initially an entertaining docu-fiction with the appearance of a people report, the film was created through small revolutions, successive conquests of freedom and a natural return to the Theatre considered by Voltaire as “the only way to bring people together to make them sociable” and “the ultimate criterion of all civilization”.
In the image of Voltaire’s family, whom he enlisted in his plays to play everywhere and all the time, the audience is taken, to the sound of the accordion, as spectator and actor on a journey that transforms the child Candide into a free man, until arriving in his famous garden; this garden of Candide which has been questioning for a long time and which especially questions ours today: what would be this garden where every lost person that we are could find his place?