IT ALL BEGINS AT SEA is a drama with a few comic relieves, that tells 3 stories of the same 3 characters. In the first story, a 6-year-old goes to the beach with his parents. In the second story he is already 12 and out with his classmates on a fieldtrip, and in the last story he is 14 and moves with his family to a new apartment. In each story, a dramatic incident makes a change in the plot.

None of us are born parents. Our children teach us how to be parents. They look at us in wonder, joy, embarrassment and, sometimes, sadness. The child’s gaze, imposed upon him by life, greatly interests me, the gaze of a child exposed to the adult world: to his parents and their relationship, to his neighbours, to his friends and their parents and their relationships. He sees his father when his father is alone, sees his mother when she is alone. It is these gazes from my own childhood that I try to recapitulate for the viewer through this film. “We live, as we dream – alone…” wrote Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness. Still and all, we live both with our parents and with our children forever.