How can we live with a brain injury, damaged in an accident? How can one learn to walk, speak, reason, interact with others when we coming out of coma? How to rehabilitate a brain that no longer works as before? In short, is one still himself after such an ordeal? These are the questions that face every day brain-damaged people and therapists who accompany them. Together they must find ways to circumvent the problems caused by brain injury. Painstaking work, which requires on both sides patience and, above all, a lot of courage.

In 1988, Olivier Brodard -a twenty one year old idealist- made a six-month humanitarian trip to Afghanistan under Soviet occupation with $50,000 in his backpack destined for the local populations. Entering illegally via Pakistan Olivier, along with his friend Paul Castella, made the arduous journey on foot, camel and tank to the Pansir Valley. They met commander Massoud and shared the daily life of the afghan people witnessing first hand the front line of the Afghan battle against the Soviet Union. When Olivier reluctantly returned home to Switzerland, he had a terrible car accident.