Scaphandre

An underwater road-trip where the marvelous imaginary of scuba diving becomes a metaphor for tackling and revealing, with the greatest of gentleness, the most violent family secrets.

This is the story of June and Simon, endearing and zany characters linked by an intense complicity. Passionate scuba divers, they train every night to descend into the ocean depths from their bunk bed. Unfortunately, June suffers from anxiety and has trouble coming back up: she's come across the Black Dragon of the Pacific. So Simon looks for solutions to help his sister regain a taste for life on Earth. With poetry, fantasy and bursts of laughter, Scaphandre aptly evokes a subject that is difficult to grasp: incest. A stab at violence and the fear of speaking out, by summoning the power of the imagination and the strength of supportive bonds.