Rue de la Sardine

Zélie, 9, admires her big brother Basile who accumulates images like a collector. In the absence of their mother, he involves her in the shooting of his film. But Zélie has to deal with her director’s changing moods.

1814. The encounter between Mathurin Thouars, a lieutenant in Napoleon's army, and a young conscript suspected of simulating epilepsy in order to avoid military service. The two men are both from Brittany but one, already marked by battles, sets out again for the front while the other, who has never known war, may escape it forever.

During the 2005 riots, four young suburban high school students hear about the old urban legend of Paupaul, "the rapist of the woods", who's said to attack young people from poor neighborhoods to keep them away from rich ones. As the All Saints' Day vacation loom, they set themselves a challenge: to cross the woods to verify if Paupaul is real.