Plot Summary:The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a writing workshop has been set up to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. Under the guidance of well-known novelist Olivia Dejazet, the participants are asked to write a noir fiction connected with the industrial past of their hometown. Session after session, one of them, a boy named Antoine, stands out. Provocative and aggressive, he gets noticed by his systematic opposition to all, including Olivia. Even more alarming, the story he has devised and that he reads aloud, the cold description of a mass murder seen through the eyes of its perpetrator, proves very disturbing. Antoine understands the killer too well. At this point, Olivia starts experiencing a feeling of attraction repulsion to Antoine.
安东来到法国南部的拉西奥塔小镇,参加一个暑期编剧工坊,他们将在知名作家奥莉维亚的帮助下写出一本犯罪悬疑小说。过程中需要大家去回忆感受小镇的工业历史,在这个跨种族的团队中,聪明且勇于发言的安东经常发表充满争议的言论,并与其他学员起冲突,和大家格格不入,奥莉维亚不得不将他赶出工作坊。奥莉维亚对于安东的暴力倾向既警觉又着迷,她该如何面对这个濒临崩解的集体创作,又该如何面对自己? 电影在悬疑的氛围下,一来一往的辩论、逐渐升温的冲突,精彩反映了当代法国年轻人对于这个复杂社会的观点以及所面临的困境。影片入围第70届戛纳电影节一种关注单元。劳伦·冈泰再度与《每分钟120击》导演罗宾·坎皮略合作编剧,在拍摄地征选背景相异的非职业演员,将每个演员本身的个性注入角色中,以多台摄影机写实捕捉他们的演出。