A shared gaze that portrays the friendship between Mohamed, a Sudanese refugee, and the filmmaker. Again, the labour of friendship, a friendship at work. From Virginia Woolf’s waves, read by Roger and listened to by Mohamed, to Courbet’s waves, observed by him. In this film, observation is always a shared practice: reading, looking, translating, drawing together. Intimacy emerges through the transmission of images and words between Sophie and Mohammed. Within the small space where it all happens, everything travels.