Frédérique Ruchaud

Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect.

The story of an exiled Spanish revolutionary, now a successful screenwriter, dangerously drawn back to his homeland and the "good fight" for freedom from fascism.

Camille has left her family for her job and only sees her children every other weekend. When her ex-husband wants to pick them up early, she flees south with them. Will she succeed in re-establishing maternal contact with her chil...