Le torrent (2022)

Alexandre (José Garcia) and Juliette (Ophélia Kolb) live in considerable comfort with their young son, Darius, in a large, secluded chalet in the mid-altitude Vosges mountains. One evening, after returning from a night at the theater, Alexandre happens upon some nude photos of Juliette with a lover on a USB drive he finds on the living-room floor. A marital argument follows, and in a rage, Juliette leaves the house on foot. Alexandre gets in his car, catches up with her, and parks so as to block her way. The argument resumes, with Juliette refusing to get in despite Alexandre’s pleas. She climbs over the low wall running alongside the road, but in the high heels she had worn to the theater, she is precariously balanced. She stumbles and dies in the fall into a ravine. The severe overnight weather then carries her body away. Alexandre, who witnessed the accident, is devastated. He considers going to the gendarmerie to explain that his wife’s death was accidental and thereby prove his good faith. It is also an opportunity for him to grow closer to his eldest daughter, Lison (Capucine Valmary), from a previous marriage. She lives with the guilt of having inadvertently caused the argument between her father and stepmother: she was the one who had looked through the contents of the USB drive without knowing what was on it, then accidentally left it on the floor when the couple returned from their night out. Lison wants to defend her father, even as the gendarmerie investigation seems to be incriminating him.