

A 29-minute gut-punch about paying someone to witness your emptiness.
Can we spend our life hiding from others the loneliness of our soul and the nothingness of our existence? A man, believing he can deceive his condition, summons a prostitute to his home. Fate will want her and him to know each other.
Acting
Blais and Dubreuil weaponize vulnerability in real time.
Direction
Lavoie traps you in a room with two strangers' raw need.

Director
Simon Lavoie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in cramped 16mm, the film's visual suffocation mirrors its emotional architecture—every frame rejects escape.
Part of Quebec's 2000s New Wave of micro-budget existentialism, where the province's cinema fund let young directors ask unanswerable questions cheaply.