Benjamin Hauser

Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.

In a small French village under German occupation, Marceau and Gustave, two carefree and resourceful young friends, lead a mundane life. One day, a trip that promised to be ordinary gradually takes a dramatic turn... Between camaraderie and rising tension, their journey will lead them to a decisive choice, where the innocence of youth brutally clashes with the harshness of war.