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.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Céline Desmoulins
Henriette Durand
Claude
Dr. Lepage
Roussin
Marie Lopez
Father Lucien
Joséphine
Papinou
Laurent
Empress Eugenia
Doctor Mercier
Doctor Cocheton
Ninjinski
Théophile
Céleste
Hortense
Betty
Madame Bauby
Joubert
Diane
Inès
Mannequin
Mannequin
Mannequin
Himself
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