Following an umpteenth dispute with her husband François, Catherine Renon decides to spend a few days with her children at her sister's house in Fontainebleau. When they come back, he is gone.
Catherine does not seem troubled. Her fickle husband must have left with his latest conquest. She actually feels quite relieved and decides to focus on her life and take over the reins of the family business, management of which has been quite dubious for many years
Her mother-in-law, a lonely, violent and bitter widow who devotes a real cult to her son, does not understand her coldness as she has not even reported the disappearance to the police in 4 days.
Not far from there, two policemen are called to see the presence of a dismembered and partly burned body in a remote area of the region. The body turns out to be François Renon.
Catherine's attitude and detachment make her the first suspect.
But between family secrets and conditioning, influence, frustrations, underlying violence and unsaid things, the truth may not be where we are looking for it...
Cécile Cabanac was a TV journalist for seventeen years (France 2, 5, TF1, M6, Arte ...). She left Paris a few years ago to go back to the Basque Country with her husband and son.