Elise and Louis are both disabled due to a stroke. Madly in love, they rebuild themselves together and gradually realize all their dreams. The “13h15” teams followed them as they achieved one of them, becoming parents.
Elise was 27 when she had a stroke, Louis was 24. She lost her left side, he lost his right side and also his speech. After months of rehabilitation, they met, fell in love and decided to live together.
The teams of “1:15 p.m.” (X, #1:15 p.m.) had followed them between 2019 and 2022, to follow their reconstruction, together. They had just moved near Geneva, Switzerland. She was a doctor, he worked at the Ministry of Health. But Elise and Louis have taken on a new challenge, the greatest of all: becoming parents.
Immense joy but also a lot of anxiety
Six years after they met, Elise became pregnant. An event that the young couple had been waiting for for a long time and which made them couldn’t be happier. But after a “ideal” pregnancy, childbirth is approaching and, with it, a certain anxiety. How to take care of a newborn when you only have one good hand? How can you continue to re-educate your body when, like Elise, these exercises take two hours every day? And what impact will the arrival of the baby have on the brains of the two young parents, when the invisible after-effects of a stroke are increased tenfold by fatigue?
From the last month of pregnancy to the return to work, including the comic show that Louis puts on to talk about his aphasia, the teams of “1:15 p.m.“ followed the transformation of Elise and Louis into parents for six months. Or how to practice at the highest level what they have never stopped doing since their accident: adapt.
A documentary signed Romain Potocki, Nassim El Mounabbih, Yoën Cousot-Paoli and Manoé David.
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