La Pallice, the port of La Rochelle, on the Atlantic. Here we meet merchant navy sailors and the confidences, the letters of those silent workers toiling in the backstage of globalization, talk about their families, the children growing up at home they never see, the solitude and the storm-battered oceans where they live. In the short time of a stop between two ports, the docks of La Pallice become the mirror of globalized trade.