
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.

as Jean-Dominique Bauby

as Céline Desmoulins

as Henriette Durand

as Claude

as Dr. Lepage

as Roussin

as Marie Lopez

as Father Lucien

as Joséphine

as Papinou

as Laurent

as Empress Eugenia

as Doctor Mercier

as Doctor Cocheton

as Ninjinski

as Théophile

as Céleste

as Hortense

as Betty

as Madame Bauby

as Joubert

as Diane

as Inès

as Mannequin

as Mannequin

as Mannequin

as Himself

as Fashion Photographer