Guillaume Canet, 50, is a successful film actor who, after wanting to try his hand at theater, comes to seek calm in a Breton thalassotherapy center. Canet has already uncompromisingly held up a mirror to himself to appear as an artist at the end of his rope.

We are, of course, watching for echoes between this character and his interpreter, Guillaumes Canet. “It makes me feel good to express my emotions’, he says.