Here is the story of Rose, an old lady who choses to bequeath her eyes to medicine, of Jean-François, a young man who has lost part of his sight after an accident, of Éric, a young doctor who experiences his first success and his first doubts. Here is the story of ordinary people who are made closer by the miracles of medicine.With this novel, Professor Pouliquen recounts the work, the questions, the emotions of an eye-surgeon, whose only aim is to give sight again, that is, to maintain the thread of life.