Sophie Artus

This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to die or kill and the will to live are very confused but finally define the fate of the three heroes.

Sarah, 40, is a nurse at the Children’s Health Center in Halissa, a multi-ethnic and poverty neighborhood. For two years, Sarah tries to get pregnant. Her desire for a child is intertwined with the difficulties of a young mother until they reach an illusionary solution– the impossible gift of a baby.

A young man secretly watches his beautiful neighbour through binoculars. When she leaves the building, he follows her into the street and even into a grocery store, buying milk just to have an excuse to be there. Later we see that his refrigerator is already full of milk. After he is injured in a car accident, he finds himself in a train carriage in a strange realm between life and death. There he meets an older man who explains the rules of this new world. He also encounters the woman he loves – someone with whom he can finally connect. Yet he longs to leave this place and return to his life.