On the northern edge of Manhattan in New York, a little away from the tourist circuit, the Cloisters Museum, the medieval wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, holds fragments of France.

This museum, in the shape of a Pyrenean abbey, is entirely constructed around four cloisters that traveled in 1913 from the south of France, more precisely from the Occitanie-Pyrénées Méditerannée region!

The film tells the extraordinary story of the cloisters of Saint-Guilhem- le-Désert (Hérault), Saint-Michel de Cuxa (Pyrénées- Orientales), Bonnefont-en-Comminges (Haute-Garonne) and Trie-sur-Baïse (Hautes-Pyrénées), from their journey from France to their reconstruction on the other side of the Atlantic.

This journey through time will allow us to meet the “antique hunter” George Grey Barnard, who initiated the opening of this Museum in 1938, thanks to the support of billionaire John D Rockefeller JR.