Pierre Rochefort

Dealing with cases involving kidnapping, drugs and abuses of power takes a toll on the personal lives of the police teams tracking down missing people. From Walter Presents, in French with English subtitles.

A young man trying to cope with his life looks up an old school friend, and together they concoct a scheme to re-enact a high school birthday party with a bunch of old pals.

Baptiste is a loner. A gifted primary school teacher living in the south of France, he knows how to bring their schoolwork alive for his pupils but never remains in the same job for more than a term. His unremarkable appearance masks cracks, even violence. When he is left unwittingly in charge of Mathias one weekend by the child’s negligent father, the boy takes Baptiste to his mother Sandra, a dazzling but fragile woman who works on the beach near Montpellier. An erratic parent who longs to make amends, she welcomes Baptiste and her son into her bungalow. For one enchanted day, a powerful spell unites them, the beginnings of a family for those who do not have one. But it won’t last. Sandra owes money and her creditors are moving in. She is forced to flee again. To help her, Baptiste must return to the roots of his life, and to the darkest, most painful secrets within him.