Inès Ouchaaou

On a sprawling urban suburbia during a sweltering summer, two young boys in love are at an impasse. Youssou has an opportunity to study abroad with a prestigious scholarship, while his boyfriend Malek advances in his art degree at a local school. As the pair wrestle with these destinies that are pulling them apart, their friends attempt to untangle the ambitions of these star-crossed lovers, all while tensions rise with the police who patrol the neighbourhood.

Jeanne Nogarède is a police officer in her home village of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. The biggest regret of her life: the case of Emma Vivian, the daughter of one of her childhood friends, who disappeared on her way to school. Five years later, a new element shakes up her understanding of the case. Jeanne discovers online the video image reconstructed by an AI of the young Emma Vivian who explains what happened to her. However, her story contains an element that only her captor could know... or her mother.