Aurélien Vacher

Hugo is 19 years old. Like every summer, he spends his holidays on an Atlantic island, in the small family house. But this year is different: Hugo has undergone a physical transformation and arrives with his girlfriend, Queen, a beautician whose lively chatter and long, glittery nails contrast sharply with the young man’s modesty and shyness. Before long, the couple becomes the focus of everyone’s attention.

Malik Dahmani, a brilliant but hot-headed police captain from the Paris region, who, after exposing police brutality, is forced to go into hiding in the Cévennes mountains to lay low. But stuck in this Cévennes valley, which is too peaceful for his liking, as if time had stopped... Malik is going round in circles and can only think about going home. Then a body is discovered in the forest. Our cop finds himself having to investigate alongside Gaëlle, a local police lieutenant, who, like the inhabitants of this remote area, seems keen to preserve its secrets.

The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her useful but mundane place in the scheme of things. Without meaning to, the two women find their lives growing tangled together, with ever more complex tragicomic consequences.

Maglone and Juliette are 19. After graduating from high school, Juliette has decided to study the visual arts. She has made new friends whom she invited to her cottage in Normandy in order to introduce them to Maglone. “Juliette and I have known each other since the sixth grade. I don't know her squad, but... are my friend's friends also mine?”