Los Angeles, August 8, 1984: the Summer Olympics. A young man with brown curls runs with small strides, pole in hand.
Miles away, in the middle of the night, a child is glued to his TV screen, watching as Pierre Quinon flies through the air, winning the gold medal in the pole vault. Quinon's feat makes him forget, for a moment, his mother's ragged breathing in the next room.
Despite a difficult childhood, the child builds a life for himself. Despite a promising youth, Pierre Quinon cuts his life short, jumping out of a window on August 17, 2011: a reverse image of the jump that made him an Olympian god.
Two paths, two lives, told through the memory of the heart.