A soldier's body returns home, but his soul never left the desert.
A former French soldier who fought in Afghanistan, lives in solitude in Montreal. The trauma caused by his memories of the conflict leads him towards an unhealthy relationship with women.
Acting
Laurent Lucas simmers with barely contained damage.
Direction
Mitrani's tight 80 minutes refuse to let you breathe.
Director
Noël Mitrani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mitrani filmed during an actual Montreal cold snap; Lucas performed several scenes with genuine hypothermia symptoms, blurring method and madness.
One of the rare Quebecois films to address Canada's forgotten Afghanistan veterans, released when most Canadians wanted to pretend the war never happened.
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