ʻLe retour du trainʼ is a metaphor of the unexpected opportunities and events that we encounter in our everyday lives. A train we are waiting for, which may or may not arrive or a train that we might or might not expect to take. Will the wish to change our lives be strong enough to put us in motion?
Appearances are sometimes deceptive. Facing a choice, being obliged to make a choice, who can affirm to know the truth? Where is the resistance we use “to avoid a choice”?

ʻLe retour du trainʼ captures a moment in time. The action takes place in a small and isolated town that has gradually depopulated over the years. In this town, the train station has been closed for many years, but what would happen if it finally started working again? Would everything change?
ʻLe retour du trainʼ contrasts different perspectives of expectation and desire. On one side nothing changes and on the other you have the dream of a different and progressive life.
With this story, I wanted to create simple and touching human characters that were capable of moving the audience, causing them to question themselves.
In the middle of the story there is also another character: a small and unused train station. This train station is the location of earthy exchanges. This is where the village people express their beliefs and their awareness of a change that is already underway.
The inhabitants of this village are driven by a strong desire: that the newly operating train be connected to civilization and that it brings them some economic benefits. Regarding our heroine, the realization of her dreams depends on this train. This train will allow her to escape from a world that never changes.
Voluntarily, there is no direct reference to this time.
I wanted the story to be a universal and timeless metaphor.
The central element of the story is the tension between conservatism and progress that have always characterized our world.