In 2017, at the age of 62, the writer and film-maker Stephen Trombley left his native America for a simpler life in rural France. He found a little place in the southwest, but after only five months he was struck down by a stroke that left his right arm paralyzed and his brains scrambled. While he was in hospital his relationship failed. Alone, broke, and with only a schoolboy's grasp of the language, Trombley found himself completely dependent on...