Director Nicolas Boukhrief enters the third millennium in a gloomy mood following the critical and public failure of his second feature film, Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences). He confided in his mentor, Andrzej Zulawski, and the latter gave him a decisive piece of advice: turn to genre cinema, the thriller in particular. He even gave him the beginning of a plot as a gift. Boukhrief worked on the subject, was touched by grace and produced this cheeky thriller, with a cast that was as eccentric as it was obvious. He develops a taste for silence and contemplation on the part of his out-of-touch heroes, who will haunt one of the most unjustly underestimated films in contemporary French cinema.