Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, shows up... It could be the start of a melodrama, it's also the start of an odyssey into fatherhood.
Acting
Karim Leklou's simmering, unshowy paternal devotion.
Cinematography
The Jura mountains as silent witness to domestic drama.
Writing
Larrieu brothers avoid every melodrama cliché.
Director
Jean-Marie Larrieu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Larrieu brothers are Jura natives who frequently shoot in this overlooked French region, treating its landscapes as emotional characters.
Laetitia Dosch was actually pregnant during filming; her real maternity leave became the film's production schedule, lending Florence's exhaustion unnerving authenticity.
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