Nadine Schwitter

The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.

A house, as if frozen in time, carries within it the lives of several generations of families. As an adult woman, M. returns to this place to remember her deceased mother. She finds memories of her childhood, of letting go, of the brutality of growing up. As a child, M. is torn between truth and fiction, past, present, and future. Out of fear of losing someone, M. creates a new person.

A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of the official police.