Hervé Langlois

学校で哲学を教えている教師カミーユ。彼女は、紛争の最中のサラエボで戯曲を上演するため、従弟のジェローム、メイドのジャミラとともに出発した。そして、カミーユの父で映画監督のヴィッキーもまたしぶしぶこの旅に付き合うのだった。しかし、その過酷さにくじけたヴィッキーは行程半ばにして脱落してしまう。旅を進める3人も戦火のサラエボで捕虜となり、カミーユとジェロームは銃に倒れる。一方、ヴィッキーは“男爵”と呼ばれるプロデューサーの依頼で、新たな映画を監督することになり、さっそく海辺で撮影を開始するのだったが……。

Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small country town. Divorced, she lives alone with her eight-year-old son, David. One night, returning home from a major operation, Sylvie is violently assaulted and raped in the garage of her building. In the furious struggle with the rapist, she manages to scratch him with a brooch. Several weeks later, the rapist attacks a pharmacist, but this time, the victim escapes by severely injuring him. The assaulter is hospitalized and must undergo a liver transplant, an operation which only Sylvie Drapier can perform...

Following a climbing accident in the mountains, Pascal loses the use of his legs and is confined to a wheelchair. The film follows his gradual acceptance of this during his stay in a rehabilitation centre and, with the support of fellow residents, the return of his will to live.

French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.