Paul Averhoff was once a great marathon runner, the gold medal winner at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Now over 70 and forced to live in a nursing home, Paul rejects the singing group and handicraft classes for his old running shoes and announces that he is training for the Berlin Marathon, which he intends to win.

The story of Antoine Leiris, who lost his beloved wife Hélène in the terrorist attack on the Paris "Bataclan". In a moving Facebook post, he counters the assassins' hatred with his love for his almost three-year-old son. And yet he seems to lose his footing in his grief.