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The year-round residents in a lakeside campsite have to leave because of a sale.

Senka, a young exile in France, decides to return to her country. She takes a look at a country that, for a moment, was her land of welcome, her last doubts about her return, her last encounters.

Directed by Alain Raoust, The Cage follows 25-year-old Anne, who has spent the past seven years of her life in prison. The crime was killing a small boy who had inadvertently gotten in the line of fire during a service station hold-up gone wrong, and Anne has never been able to forgive herself. Since she was a minor when convicted, however, Anne is up for what she believes is an undeserved parole. Once out of prison, she cannot come to grips with her freedom, and sets off to find redemption with the father of the child she had accidentally murdered.

Salome gets a summer job in a junkyard somewhere in the country side. Under a western sun, in this place out of the world, her teenage rebellion springs up. From unexpected encounters to shared sorrows, arise promises of a new life.