One evening, Etienne, a police officer from the BAC, and Christian, his teammate, witness the assault of a young girl. But the killer manages to escape, seriously injuring Christian. Shortly after, Etienne discovers, on the one hand, that Angèle, the woman who left him seven months earlier, is about to give birth and that his new boss, Alex Le Guen, is none other than the man he spent the night with after a drunken evening.
Acting
Montoute's exhausted everyman carries absurd premise with straight face
Writing
Three plotlines enter, one coherent movie somehow exits

Director
Eric Summer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
BAC (Brigade Anti-Criminalité) films are France's comfort-food crime genre—this one adds rare queer workplace tension to the formula.
Édouard Montoute later played the same cop character in two sequels, making Étienne Garreau an accidental franchise hero for TF1.
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