The Opal Coast, northern France. In a quiet and picturesque fishing village, something finally happens: a special baby is born. A child so unique and peculiar that it unleashes a secret war between the extraterrestrial forces of good and evil. Soon after, when an attractive stranger stumbles into the village, the police are racking their brains in an attempt to solve the mystery surrounding a bizarre incident and several disfigured bodies. It all soon escalates into a battle of supernatural proportions, involving powerful forces from outer space that – much to the astonishment of the local authorities – are trying to get ahold of a small human being.
“I’ve long wanted to articulate an understanding of the meaning of good and evil, but this time I wanted to approach it through the popular American method of cinema. /…/ American cinema has its strengths and its defects, just like European cinema. /…/ Hollywood movies are easier, more accessible. They pose questions and they simplify the answers for the public, and that comes across very powerfully in the space opera, a genre that by its very nature reckons with grand ideas, metaphysics, and transcendence.” (Bruno Dumont)