SMAC Productions

Brothers Tony and Noé pass the long sweltering summer days playing games of chance and death… until the accident that will change their lives forever. Ten years later, now young adults and back in Royan, their paths cross that of Cassandra, their childhood love. But even after all this time, the brothers are still hiding a secret…

Helen remembers an evening when she received a visit from her friend Tom, upset because he'd believed he'd seen a friend in the métro who shouldn't have been there. Helen listened to him, but upon hearing the rain, she thought of Maud who perhaps would not return to Carteret that night, of Alice, who never came back. Their conversation had led them to evoke two events from the past that they'd forgotten, which had locked off something of their lives.

1997, in a French suburb. Kamar, a 9-year-old Algerian girl who has just arrived in France, accompanies her older brother Farouk to the fair. They take with them the rooster that belonged to their father. At nightfall, Farouk asks Kamar to stay alone for a while and leaves with the animal into the crowd.

Jordi, 16, is an apprentice guide at Guise Castle. As he finishes a guided tour in his oversized uniform, he is still thinking about Marianne, the castle keeper's daughter. It's been going on for weeks. The great hall has emptied, the visitors have left except for one: Antoine, Jordi's older brother, whom he hasn't seen in years...

In the end, it came from the ground. And slowly it took over. For lack of a better term, people called it melting, then they fell silent. In the Aa Valley, they were the first to have to flee their lands. She had hesitated.

A hot summer. Hidden in the forest, Jeanne and Jonas live in their converted truck. Before heading back on the road, they prepare one last action.

A young man wants to leave the suburb in which he lives. But in his world, for him to grow back, the price to pay is enormous.