A writer's block turns into something far worse when murder seeps into his story.
A man alone in an empty house somewhere in the Solagne region of France. Despite the pleasent light of spring, the man is prey to anguished thoughts : a brewing storm, the blood of two children, a face glimpsed behind a windowpane, sleepless nights spent waiting for the dawn. The man is Vincet Delaune, a famous novelist. But he is having a hard time finisshing his latedt book. A stone's throw from his house, two little girls were killed. In spite of Vincent's disgust at the crime, he is irresistably drawn to the little abandoned train station where the bodies of the twins were found...
Direction
Olivier Nolin crafts suffocating atmosphere with minimal resources.
Acting
Olbrychski's haunted novelist simmers with quiet desperation.
Cinematography
Spring light made sinister — beauty that feels wrong.
Director
Olivier Nolin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This vanished curiosity embodies 1980s Euro-art-horror's obsession with writers who consume real tragedy for material — think Borges by way of Chabrol.
Olbrychski, a major Polish star, made this during his French period; director Nolin never made another feature, leaving this as sole evidence of his vision.
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