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Disparue en hiver (2014)

100 min · Drama

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Directors

Christophe Lamotte

Cast

Kad Merad, Géraldine Pailhas, Lola Créton, Pierre Perrier, Francis Renaud

After a young woman he encountered disappears, a former police officer turned debt collector becomes interested in finding her.

The story

Daniel Vernant, a former police officer now working as a debt collector, has his car attacked by a debtor he angered. Later, at a roadside diner, he watches a young couple: the man gives the young woman a set of keys and leaves. She catches up with Daniel and asks for a ride. Their route leads along a forest road toward an apparently uninhabited area. When she offers to perform oral sex for 50 euros, Daniel is outraged, refuses, and leaves her there. Remorseful, he returns minutes later, but she has disappeared and does not answer his calls. An elderly client then tells him that her granddaughter Laura has been missing for two days. Daniel recognizes the girl in her photo and becomes interested in finding her.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Daniel Vernant (Kad Merad), a former police officer who has become a debt collector, has a tow-truck driver take away the car of a man who has not paid his debt. The man arrives, protests, takes it out on the tow-truck driver, then leaves. A little later, sitting behind the wheel of his car, Daniel answers a call on his mobile phone. The man suddenly appears, armed with a crowbar, strikes Daniel’s windshield several times, then leaves without saying a word. At a roadside diner, Daniel rereads and sorts through his documents. He watches a young couple seated at another table. The young man hands a set of keys to the girl (Lola Créton) and leaves. When Daniel leaves the diner, the girl catches up with him and politely but insistently asks him to drop her off nearby. She gives him directions. As they drive, Daniel grows increasingly uneasy, since they are heading along a forest road toward an area that seems uninhabited. He stops the car in a wooded area. She offers to give him oral sex for 50 euros. Outraged, he refuses, makes her get out of the car, and drives away, abandoning her there. Overcome with remorse, he returns a few minutes later, but she has disappeared and his calls go unanswered. By coincidence, one of his clients is an elderly woman who tells him that her granddaughter, Laura, has been missing for two days. When he sees a photo, he realizes she is the girl he met the day before. He becomes interested in finding Laura. Gradually, he uncovers a kind of prostitution ring.

Genres

Drama

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