Perdrix

"And so the young man, the young woman and the little boy get on their way."

On a sidewalk of a misty city, a young woman encounters a little boy and his older brother. She is alone and has never left the city ; the pair is heading back to the countryside. The young woman then formulates a proposition : in exchange for her last gold coins, they must lead her beyond the city walls, towards a distant location she has been dreaming of every night. The small party sets off, the three souls getting acquainted. However as the miles go by, a strange impression emerges : what if their encounter was not simply just a coincidence ? For those who were meant to be mere travel companions gradually reveal themselves as confidants, soulmates. Memories start to overlap, pieces fitting together... Above all, the same story seems to repeat itself : boy meets girl, they love each other, and it proves to be their downfall. Drawing from the motifs of travel and chance encounters, PERDRIX outlines the contours of a collective and healing odyssey : Flavia, Petitjean, and Yann tread the paths of a world in ruins, while simultaneously tracing the origins of their unease. Guided through the map of their hopes and doubts by the invisible hand of the narrator, the three companions gradually slip inside a hallucinated reality, a blend of dreams, memories, delirium… Standing at the crossroads of the epic, the symbolist drama, and the coming-of-age tale, PERDRIX outlines the angst of a reality on the brink of disappearance, where everything seems to exist only as mere traces.