In the eighth month of her pregnancy, which she is struggling to fully accept, Lucile discovers that her paternal grandmother is not dead, as she had always been told, but is alive and well in a small village in the Morvan region. Does this secret hide a terrible curse that would strike all the boys in the family and threaten Lucile's child? Or does it hide other family secrets? Against the advice of her loved ones, Lucile leaves for Morvan, determined to face the ghosts of her past...
Acting
Constance Gay anchors every scene with raw, trembling resolve.
Cinematography
Morvan's misty forests breathe their own sinister atmosphere.
Direction
Micout treats the curse as psychological wound, not spectacle.
Director
Chloé Micout
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Morvan region's isolated villages and folk traditions make it fertile ground for French rural horror, a niche genre rarely exported.
Micout deliberately withheld whether supernatural elements were literal to mirror Lucile's own uncertainty—crew members argued about the 'real' ending on set.
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