A muggy oppressive summer marks the return of prodigal son Thomas (Québec’s Niels Schneider), to the family farm in the Drôme after a long absence in Montréal. He’s back to everything he fled 12 years before, except now there’s 6 year-old nephew Alex and his scintillating mother Mona (Adèle Exarchopoulos). Thomas’s aging mother is hospitalized, his father is as hardhearted as ever and his younger brother Mathieu (Alex’s father), long dead. The fabric of rural France has changed and farming is even more of a struggle...
First-time feature director/ co-screenwriter Jessica Palud adapted Serge Joncour’s novel, and renowned filmmaker Philippe Lioret produced and co-wrote the script. A moving and emotionally-gripping family saga...