A boarding school student, Gerald, is a shy and asthmatic teenager. One night, he decides to follow his roommate Theo and his gang to try the game they secretly play at night…
Acting
Solal Forte's suffocating anxiety is physically painful to watch.
Cinematography
Night scenes that make every shadow feel like a threat.
Director
Guillaume Renusson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The asthma isn't just medical detail — it externalizes Gerald's social suffocation, every wheeze a metaphor for not fitting masculine codes.
French boarding school films (Les Choristes, Au Revoir Les Enfants) usually romanticize institutional life; this short deliberately strips away all nostalgia.
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