Rémy Rondeau

Sadoun is France’s best soccer player whose extra-curriculum pleasures are damaging his play and new contract negotiations. Dispatched by his scheming agent to his home village, he ends up reconciling with his father, relating to his fatherless niece, who dotes on him, and training his local children’s team, whom he takes to championship glory.

An old man is lonely after the death of his wife. To fight his boredom, he spends his days making puzzles. The living room walls display dozens of puzzles carefully assembled over his monotonous days. Then one day the old man finds a mysterious box at his doorstep. Inside the box are puzzle pieces. Driven by the desire to discover what it represents, the old man commences to assemble the puzzle. While doing so, strange and uncanny events begin to occur around him.

Summer 1996. A small town nestled in the shadow of a gigantic factory. Ben, a shy eleven year old boy, lives there alone with his mom when she leaves him to strike. The coming of the troubling Eva in his bunch disturbs him a little bit more, especially when she mentions the legend of a mysterious creature hidden under a nearby lake's pontoon. As a game, Eva challenges Ben: walk through the "pontoon of the death", and come back. But Ben fails miserably. At night, the Creature appears to him.