At the age of 35, Boren set off in search of children's drawings made in the Site 2 refugee camp in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime.

This sensitive and unique heritage, carefully preserved in a cellar in Marseille for 30 years, has just been sent back to Cambodia. For Boren, this marks the beginning ofa long journey through time, from Marseilles to Battambang, in search of these works and their creators, who were able to transform their tragedy into beauty.

The Alchemists, like a heartbeat that panics at the memory of a collective trauma and calms down in the long journey towards rebirth, attempts to understand the role of art in reconstruction: how it transfigures, liberates and manoeuvres, and how it can be used to bring about change.