In profile and in the foreground, Raphaël, the father of Yervant Gianikian, reads an extract from his memoirs, translating from the Armenian. A static shot lasting almost eight minutes, during which the son occupies a position backstage. Impassive and totally concentrated, he is the second base of this triangular space, the third being the camera, towards which Raphaël turns his head at a certain moment. It is Angela Ricci Lucchi filming and this really his a family scene where a memory is being resuscitated, making a transition from its original cultura, Armenian, to its culture o f adoption, Italian. But even more, Io Ricordo is the setting for a story passing from one generation to the next.