This is the story of Marie, a young woman suffering from dysphasia. Sometimes her mother tongue sounds like a foreign language to her. This excludes her from the communication highways of life.

From one encounter to another, we measure the gap between Marie and the rest of the world, a gap that is very difficult to overcome.

For in addition to her abnormality, which has caused her deep pain since childhood, other barriers are about to isolate her even more: unemployment, drinking too much and the fact that she is deprived of her own child. Yet behind her pride, aggressiveness and rejection of pity lies an enormous hunger for love.

THE COLOUR OF WORDS describes 24 hours in the life of Marie.