Varda travels through France with a small digital camera, meeting people who glean — gathering leftover crops from fields, discarded food from markets, cast-off objects from city streets — and reflects on her own life as an ageing filmmaker also gleaning images from the world around her. The result is one of the essential documents of the essay film: digressive, funny, politically alert, and suffused with a profound tenderness for the marginalised and the overlooked.
