Stéphanie is a conscientious police officer, investigating horrific head injuries suffered by a teen protester, which could only be caused by the cops’ flash-ball weapons. Stéphanie realises that the injured boy is from her provincial hometown, and when she goes back there to visit her mum, she is in danger of running into the boy’s own stricken mother. The secret connection energises Stéphanie, she gets tougher and more persistent in her quest to find the guilty cop and put him away – but the awful truth is that now she is cutting her own corners and might get investigated herself.
"The workings of the IGPN have intrigued me for a long time. Because they are police officers investigating other police officers, these men and women are in an uncomfortable position. They are viewed negatively, often despised and sometimes hated by their colleagues, while being criticized at the same time by certain media outlets that accuse them of being both judge and jury. These tensions interested me, and I intuitively felt that there were some interesting avenues to explore on a fiction level." (Dominik Moll)
Dominik Moll
Born in 1962, in Bühl, Germany, to a German father and French mother. He studied film at the City College of New York and the French National Film School (IDHEC). He then worked as assistant editor, editor and assistant director, among others with Marcel Ophuls and Laurent Cantet. His debut feature film, Intimité, was released in 1994. In 2000, his second feature film, Harry, He's Here to Help, was screened in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival.