Between April and November 1991, Hafif, who was living in New York at the time, wrote a series of letters to a friend in Paris, writer Jean-Charles Masséra. Letters to J-C #6 (Coney Island (1991-1999) tells the story of an excursion to the beach on the coast of Brooklyn. The film opens with Hafif in Manhattan. As she takes the metro to Coney Island, the voice-over narrator starts guiding us through her journey.