Alban Petit

Spain, 1980s. Philippe is a ten-year-old French boy traveling with his very pregnant mother, Marie, and his father, Tomas, whose plan is to take them home to the village where he grew up and introduce the boy to his Spanish roots. But an unfortunate breakdown leads the family to a scrapyard on the outskirts of a deserted inland town, where they come upon its owners, Alicia and Miguel.

Blanche has been promoted to a job in another city. She and Damien and their kids thus change places, to this place on the oceanside ; Blanche felt like changing something. But something is different. Damien dreams of a car accident, of a roadcurve above the ocean... Of a woman’s face. Then he meets this woman, whilst running on a road above the ocean, precisely… She is Ariane. Damien’s arrival has made her reappear. She is dead. : she died in the car accident Damien dreamt of. She is here, in flesh and blood. He sinks into an irrepressible passion with her, in her arms. Blanche has no idea what’s happening of course, but she sees Damien slowly drifting… Around them, the world is as good as empty. There is nothing left but matter.