A city bus wheezes through darkness until it stops in a forest. A perplexed businessman descends, takes in his surroundings and walks into the woods. His disappearance triggers unexpected, elliptical relationships among four solitary characters desperately searching for companionship. Lucette, the Man’s wife who anxiously awaits her husband’s return. «Men disappear when they wa... (展开全部) A city bus wheezes through darkness until it stops in a forest. A perplexed businessman descends, takes in his surroundings and walks into the woods. His disappearance triggers unexpected, elliptical relationships among four solitary characters desperately searching for companionship. Lucette, the Man’s wife who anxiously awaits her husband’s return. «Men disappear when they want to start something new», the police tell his wife. She doesn’t know what she is expected to do, to grieve or to plan her future without her husband, anyway it’s not easy to close the book of thirty years marriage. Louis is a young father of three daughters, who is hired to replace the missing businessman. While his family is far away he is forced to take a room in a small hotel. There he gets pursued by the pretty receptionist Chantal, who dreams of sharing her life with someone special. And still there is one more hero – Marcel. An aging man, a former gambler, he desperately needs money to do some expensive surgery. So he decides to once again try himself as a gambler.
