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June 1940 and
German troops are advancing on Paris. Odille, a widowed teacher, succumbs
to the widespread panic and with her two children, joins the exodus from
the city. After fifty kilometres, a German plane attacks, decimating the
helpless refugees.
Seventeen year
old Yvan, a shaven headed youth, appears from nowhere and leads them away
from the carnage. Odille must decide whether to follow him into the forest
or return to the bloody road.
Yvan finds an
abandoned house and breaks in, the children are transfixed, reluctantly
Odille follows. Here, with no radio or clocks, cut off from the outside
world and struggling to survive, the four characters will slowly come
to know each other and move inexorably beyond their limits.
Odille does
not trust this wild, illiterate youth, who lies constantly but takes care
of them. Yvan a feral presence, reveling in the chaos that threatens to
engulf them, provoking fear, longing, dread and desire.
Surrounded by untamed
nature, in the hot glow of summer, Odille feels her control starting to
slip. Then, Yvan is arrested, for escaping from jail before the war, will
Odille see him again or is this an impossible love?
Runtime:- 95 minutes |