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Aurore, Nours, Jeanne and Diane are in their final year of boarding school in Drôme, southeastern France. What unites them is the small family they have formed with their classmates, their walks by the river, their banter and games in their rooms, their shared political aspirations. Soon all this will change as they make their way to university, far from the friendships and safe environment they have thus far enjoyed. With considerable insight and a playful tone, Guillaume Brac captures key moments of this crucial moment in life, where the intimate and the carefree are overshadowed by insecurity and bitterness at impending separations which, for many, echo older wounds. An elliptical narrative that combines observation and first-person narration, the film captures the multiple layers of emotion felt by each of the protagonists, avoiding sentimentality and generating true intensity. It also paints the collective portrait of a politicised and restless generation and its ontological questions, both timeless and contemporary. What it’s like to plan your future or to have children in a world so uncertain and absurd? Such awareness and sensitivity does at least hold promise. (Nepheli Gambade)

In the presence of Guillaume Brac.

Guillaume Brac:  LE NAUFRAGÉ (2009, K), UN MONDE SANS FEMME (2011, K), TONNERRE (2013), LE REPOS DES BRAVES (2016, K), CONTES DE JUILLET (2017), L’ILE AU TRÉSOR (2018), A L’ABORDAGE (2020), UN PINCEMENT AU CŒUR (2023, K)