Screenplay
Arriving with a wife and child in the heart of the Ardèche, Étienne saw his life topple in the first days of his employment in an ultra modern turkey farm. In contact with Chaumier, his new boss, and the denatured beasts of the farm, Étienne gradually changes.
Writer
Fils unique details the emotive relationship between a father and his son who can only communicate their mutual feelings via unspoken words or provocation. It's the confrontation of an adolescent looking for his limits and a father who, through love or cowardice, refuses to set him any. No one is taken in by their silent game in this place "at the end of the world" where apparently nothing could possibly happen to them.
