The spellbinding power of the sounds and rhythms that have for centuries marked a still time of birth and death, the ringing of bells and the activity of bell-ringing continue in the Haut-Pays Niçois, strongly linked to a whole range of musical practices. In these valleys where men have had to leave to earn their living, the familiar language of bells marks a paradoxical echo of their own lives. In these valleys, where men have had to leave to earn their living, the familiar language of the bells is a paradoxical echo of their own lives. Through the destiny of one man, the film weaves together the tenuous threads that make the bell-ringers the protagonists of a fragile collective memory.