

Johnny, a local activist, is wanted by the police after a robbery gone wrong. Paul, his childhood friend, comes back home after 15 years to find him before the police. Investigator Anna Radoszewski is also on Johnny’s trail. Thus begins a search in which memo- ries and secrets resurface. In a social context that shakes the town, everybody is looking for Johnny, who soon becomes the symbol of a revolt.
Acting
Bouillon and Lottin's fractured chemistry carries every scene
Direction
Debraux turns a factory town into a pressure cooker

Director
Baptiste Debraux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film deliberately mirrors 2018's Yellow Vest movement, with Johnny as a fictionalized composite of working-class protesters demonized then mythologized by media.
The climactic factory confrontation was shot in a functioning plant; workers were given speaking roles and rewrote their own dialogue.