Reflec­tion of the soci­ety and vec­tor of the occi­den­tal cul­ture, Amer­i­can cin­e­ma influ­ences the entire world since its debuts. For more than 45 years, the Deauville Amer­i­can Film Fes­ti­val is the main Euro­pean win­dow on Amer­i­can films; hav­ing his biggest direc­tors and stars stood on the famous Nor­mandy board­walk, Les Planch­es. This doc­u­men­tary tells the sto­ry of the Fes­ti­val and exam­ines the cur­rent state of US indie films, with the tes­ti­monies of about twen­ty Amer­i­can and French cin­e­ma fig­ures.