Achille, 13, awaits, full of hope, the release from prison of his father, unknown and fantasized. His dream of living as a threesome, like a real family, will be seriously undermined by a mother exhausted from waiting and this father who is unsuitable and made irresponsible by so many years of incarceration. Will this vulnerable person with a flamboyant past be able to keep the promise he made to his son to never live apart from him again?
Acting
Etzlinger's hopeful eyes will wreck you
Direction
Cornamusaz lets silences scream
Cinematography
Switzerland never looked this suffocatingly gray
Director
Séverine Cornamusaz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Swiss-French co-production examining incarceration's family impact, a perspective usually dominated by American prison dramas.
Roy Dupuis, Quebecois icon, learned Swiss-German dialect for this; his physical transformation mirrors Joe's dissolving identity.
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