The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Also known as Die Taucherglocke und der Schmetterling, Szkafander és pillangó, Kelebek ve Dalgıç, O Escafandro e a Borboleta, La escafandra y la mariposa

“Let your imagination set you free.”

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.