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Melissa is an experienced, exemplary prison guard. But a dangerous spiral is set into motion when she transfers to a Corsican jail, where she accepts help and protection from inmate Saveriu to get her bearings. Upon his release, he contacts Melissa expecting to collect.
Jean-Baptiste, a young Corsican, regularly accompanies his father hunting in the high Taravo region. For the time being, the teenager works as a packer, preferring to see animals alive rather than dead. But for his eighteenth birthday, his father gives him a hunting rifle. Now it's time to kill his first wild boar.
Nathan, in his twenties and still studying, no longer feels like he belongs in his own life. To reflect on his uncertain future, he decides to take a solo vacation to Corsica. Under the scorching summer sun, the introverted young man meets Léana and Félix, with whom he shares a shabby room in a youth hostel. The duo welcomes him warmly, as if they were old friends, which unsettles Nathan. Initially distant, he gradually grows fond of the pair, who are the complete opposite of him. Little by little, an unexpected bond forms between them—one that deeply shakes him.