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Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. In 1895, their ancestor Adèle, then aged 21, leaves her hometown to search for her mother in Paris. She discovers a city on the cusp of modernity, bustling with new-found avant-garde creativity, with the rise of photography and the birth of Impressionist painting. As her descendants retrace her steps, they unravel Adèle's surprising past. The two timelines of 1895 and 2024 intertwine and collide, confronting the cousins’ contemporary attitudes with life in late 19th century Paris, leaving everyone’s future forever changed.
At the end of the weekend, Louis has to say goodbye to his friend Antonin, with whom he is secretly in love. However, just a few days before his departure, Antonin prefers to flirt with Pauline, who quickly interferes with the duo. For Louis, stealing his place is out of the question. So he takes refuge in his imagination: where Pauline doesn't exist.
Christopher, 17, is a young man of identity who lives with his father and sister in a suburban housing estate. Then an eclipse is announced and a family moves into the house next door.
It's a film in several chapters, like several breaths coming throught distant times. Close and secret figures speak or retain their words. Disjointed spaces try to be linked by one emotion, the strength of the living and the absent. The emotion that allows us to dream of a past full of future and a future strengthened by the past.
