In Le Bateau de Léon M., the Dardenne brothers recall the mythical strike which paralysed Belgium during the sixties. Trying to patch up the rags of a tattered working class history, they question the memory of Léon, an important actor of a social class imagined by the authors as a kind of desirable homeland. His language was not easy to capture, it took a long tracking shot down the river to bring the words back to the surface.