Emmanuel Plasseraud

Mathis, a film student, answers an ad offering the possibility to do a documentary on Albina Mayer, an eccentric, aging actress. He is welcomed into her fabulous villa and meets Laura, her young renter. Mathis is instantly smitten by the young woman and senses he has the possibility to accomplish his dreams: doing the job he loves, earning enough money to buy the camera he’s longing for and finding love. Yet making the documentary proves to be far more difficult than imagined... Mathis must cope with the actress's capricious mood swings, Laura's strange submissiveness, and the sudden appearances of an enigmatic butler. Feeling oppressed by the disturbing atmosphere and troubled by his feelings for Laura, Mathis decides to go outside for a moment, only to realize he is trapped inside the villa…

During a business trip, Nicolas Arpens disappears on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela. As the story becomes increasingly obscure, the detective in charge of the investigation realises that the heart of the case lies in another time...

I made a number of super-8 films between 1987 and 1993. Some of them were fiction films. Others consist of documentary images of my friends, of the city where I lived, in the suburb of Paris, and of my holidays, avoiding almost totally to film my family. I edited these films to tell that part of my life, where I went from adolescence to adulthood.