Alyzée Soudet

An aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel.

Anne is exceptionally unexceptional. She has a nice job, a nice apartment, and a wonderful therapist. But when she notices disturbing events in her apartment, she begins to think that maybe she’s not quite living that exceptionally unexceptional life she thought she was.

Lu, a Chinese immigrant, lives with his French boyfriend Christophe in Paris. During the election, Lu discovers that his boyfriend is going to vote for a candidate who opposes immigration.

In this intimate, experimental drama, a young woman is prey to the denial of the grief of her mother, a painting restorer. Jade runs herself a bath. Here begins a journey between paint and water during which Jade vacillates between dream and daily reality. Water will immerse us in its internal conflicts between conscious, subconscious and unconscious.