

90 minutes
4/26/2000
Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.

Patrick Sébastien
as Hugues Michel

Jean-François Balmer
as Paul Gontier

Michel Duchaussoy
as Louis

Myriam Boyer
as Christine

Annie Girardot
as Emma

Marie Denarnaud
as Marie Gontier

Samuel Dupuy
as Zef

Nathalie Roussel
as Jeanne Michel

Jean-François Dérec
as le surveillant à l'hôpital psychiatrique / ancien tireur d'élite

Olivia Brunaux
as Sophie, la sœur de Zef

Pierre Mirat
as Le maire de Martel

Étienne Draber
as Un médecin

Jean Lescot
as Gaëtan Durieux
Serge Maillat
as René

Isabelle Tanakil
as Anne Gontier
Javotte Rougerie
as L'infirmière Berty
Jean-Jacques Cripia
as Robert

Jean-Pierre Cargol
as Le gitan