David is an autist. He's 34 years old and lives shuted in himself but he needs the others. He says : " I don't have people enough... I need two David like me."
"The spring's backing off" tells the David s story with all his people. When you speak with David, you're meeting his family : Peter, Orlando, John, Anthony, Rachel...
"The spring's backing off" is not the observation of a strange and different world. It's a meeting : characters call out to the film's director and present him their real life, where they are able to escape to the autism.

And if the French actually had less capacity than the Dutch to learn languages, as claimed Yves Leterme before becoming Prime Minister? And if the reality of the world by changing the language we speak? Also, why people who already speak several languages as they are easy to learn new ones? In our bilingual country, where, depending on your point of view, language can be an asset or a handicap, it could be useful to examine the scientific basis of language. Gray Matter has done, until the depths of our neurons.