Justine has a most loved patient, 96-year-old Hélène Hel, a resigned needle worker and bistro proprietor whose biography she keeps in a blue scratch pad. It is a romantic tale disturbed by the German control of France, extradition to Buchenwald and years lost because of amnesia - all normal points in French writing. It is strange for dyslexia and Braille to assume a part. This likewise applies to blue eyes. A seagull is approached to convey more emblematic load than Chekhov