Stéphane Szestak

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.

Raphaëlle, a young twenty-year-old pianist, is hired to take care of an isolated house for a summer. In the midst of a crisis of legitimacy and reflection on her life choices, she seizes this opportunity to escape. However, she is forced to share the premises with Arthur who, following an accident, cannot take care of the house alone during the absence of his brother Gus. He is a forty-year-old of few words who spends his days repainting the walls of the house and moving furniture in clumsy and senseless ways.

The discovery of a man’s body in the shower cabin of local baths plunges the establishment into astonishment. Without identity papers and unknown to the registers, the victim can only be identified through his fingerprints.

At age 17, Eglantine is troubled by a number of things. Her argumentative parents comprise an absentee and philandering father and an overprotective, occasionally alcoholic mother. Her boyfriend Sébastien is a couple of years older; he's ready, but she isn't. Frequent furtive visits to her therapist help her to see that these issues are not 'problems', but 'difficulties', which she has the strength to overcome.