A dark and distant place

Philippe hopes that spending a week with his father who is moving to a senior residence following the suicide of his wife will help him patch up their difficult relationship, but mostly he wants to understand his mother’s fatal deed. She often reminisced about her charmed youth and never mentioned ending her life. Not buying his father’s claims of incomprehension over his wife’s suicide, Philippe goes back in time and investigates his parent’s past before he was born. He discovers a dark and violent world. He also tracks down a man who hurt his mother when she was young.