The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. The film invites us to board it and meet the patients and caregivers who invent its life day to day.

Nicolas Philibert, born on January 10, 1951 in Nancy, France, is a French director, screenwriter and actor. In 1974, he served as an assistant director of the romance movie The Middle of the World. In 1976, he served as an assistant director of the crime film I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, Sister and Brother... . In 1978, he directed his first documentary La voix de son maîtr. In 1985, Christopher. In 1990, Louvre City. In 1992, In the Land of the Deaf. In 1997, the music documentary Every Little Thing. In 2002, the family documentary To Be and to Have, nominated for Best Non-English Film at the 57th British Academy Film Awards. In 2007, Back to Normandy. In 2013, The House of Radio, nominated for Best Documentary at the 39th César Film Awards. In 2018, Each and Every Moment. In 2023, the documentary On the Adamant he directed has won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film in the main competition of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.

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