Esprit d'hiver

Novelist Nathalie Weber and her teenage daughter Alice are stranded in a remote mountain villa in a ferocious blizzard. As the storm rages, Alice grows moody and elusive, taunting her mother and hiding away in her room, further straining Nathalie’s relationship with her adopted daughter. The tension deepens as Nathalie launches herself into her writing, but is plagued by anxiety and terrifying visions from the past. When she answers her phone to a mystery caller, there is no voice at the other end of the line. A strange shadow lurks in the thick fog now swallowing the house. There are sounds of a break-in in her double locked study – and still Alice won’t emerge from her room to help investigate the ghostly happenings. Paranoid imagination blends with alarming reality as Nathalie struggles to eliminate her greatest fears and dispel a host of sinister apparitions. For if it’s not her mind playing tricks, what terrible truth is she about to discover? Based on Laura Kasischke’s bestselling novel Mind of Winter, adapted and directed by César award-winners Florence Vignon and Cyril Mennegun.