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Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...
general audience, movie lovers
one-night stand, algeria, woman director, algerian war (1954-62), french algerian, adulterous affair
France
asMarc Palestro
asMarie-Jeanne
asClotilde Palestro
asSergio Bartoli
asLa mère de Marc
asRobert Prat
asEmmanuelle
asJo Fuentes
asMarc (enfant)
asCathy
asMarie-Jeanne (enfant)
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