Heimgekehrt

Flight 727 left Orly airport near Paris on schedule a few hours ago. The Canadian Atlantic Airways plane with 40 passengers is in the middle of the Atlantic and is expected to reach Montreal in six hours.

In the midst of a casting, the manipulative casting director Henri presents a constant stream of faces to Yvan an eccentric and provocative fashion photographer. A young woman named Julie momentarily offers a glimpse of the unseen. She is a paradox of fragility and brutality, of woman and child. Through a variety of circumstances the characters find themselves trapped in a world of lies and manipulation they are all taking part of. For Julie the line between fantasy and reality blurs. However in the casting sessions she finds something that she apparently needs. As all her defenses break down, it reveals what is the deepest and the most hidden in the young girl. A modern portrait of the ego and the human longing for recognition.

Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of her act. Internal in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to put it in front of Zef, persuades that his healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.

Inspired by a news item that upset France, the film tells the story of a divorced father, who barricades himself with his children in his isolated house, refusing to return them to their mother who has custody of them. by court decision.