Poggi and Vinel's first feature after several shorts is an amazing film set in a dystopian future with the technology of the past and the present day. The country is ruled tyrannically, using forces spéciales (killer drones) to wipe out the male delinquent orphans who live by violence. Jessica (Aomi Muyock), a bullet-proof vested almost virgin Mary type figure who is never sexualised, takes in the orphans and tries to calm them of their anger, having them live together as one family, learning to care for and love each other. But she knows it's not easy.
They find an abandoned bourgeois house in which they enjoy a middle-class life style, adopting the guerrilla uniform of Jessica and carrying weapons around with them in preparation for the inevitable. But problems develop when they try to fraternise with the villagers. The love which Michael (Sebastian Urzedowsky) feels for Camille (Angelina Woreth) is strong, but in spite of the soothing qualities of Jessica the latent violence of the orphans can't not be expressed on occasion, as when Lucas (Augustin Raguenet) starts to attack a few men at a party the younger villagers are having. And it's the act of pent-up violence in Raiden (Paul Hamy) which causes the villagers to have the drones set on them and ruin the brief idyll.
We need people like Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel: this film is saying an enormous amount about the state of our present society.
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