Connemara

Hélène is about to turn forty. She comes from a small town in eastern France. She has had a good academic and professional career, has two daughters and lives in a designer house in uptown Nancy. She has reached the goal that the magazines mark and the dream that she had in her adolescence: get away, change her social environment, succeed. And, even so, there is that feeling of failure, after the years, that everything is a disappointment. Christophe, for his part, has just fulfilled them. He has never left the town where he and Hélène grew up. He is no longer as handsome as before. He goes through life step by step, giving priority to friends and fun, leaving for the next day the great efforts, the important decisions and the age of choosing what he wants. He now sells dog food, dreams of playing hockey again like when he was sixteen, and lives with his father and his son, an unassuming, quiet, indecisive existence. It could be said that he has completely failed. And yet he is convinced that there is still time to do anything.