Director : Patrick Sébastien
Actors : Patrick Sébastien, Jean-François Balmer, Michel Duchaussoy, Myriam Boyer, Samuel Dupuy, Marie Denarnaud, Nathalie Roussel, Olivia Brunaux, Annie Girardot, Jean Lescot, Jean-François Derec, Isabelle Rougerie, Isabelle Tanakil
Feature film, Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French
French release : 4/26/00
Runtime : 1h 30mn
Current status : Released
Associate production company : Olifilm
Co-production : Endemol , France 2 Cinéma
French distribution : Rezo Films
Film export/Foreign Sales : FTD International Cinéma (voir France Télévisions Distribution)

Zef, 20, is a simple soul, a simpleton so full of love that he can only say one word, " Love-you ". Zef loves the whole world. He’s always happy. Another of the village’s native sons is Paul Gontier, a cold, ruthless, sharp-tongued businessman, Gontier now lives mostly in Paris but owns a luxurious château near the village. He is there with his second wife Anne, and his daughter, Marie. Marie, 18, lives under her father’s oppressive authority. Zef is attracted by Marie’s sad smile. Marie is warmed by Zef’s kindness. That evening, she slips out of her father’s house to visit her mother, Christine. On the way back she meets Zef, who has just accidentally witnessed Sophie and Robert making violent love together. In all innocence, he follows their example and copies their behavior on Marie. Zef is locked up in a local mental home. Marie, already a delicate child before the rape, now shrinks into a shell of total silence. Her father sends her to a psychiatric clinic in a distant part of France. The doctor appointed to treat Marie is Hugues, a psychiatric with a gentle, progressive approach. His motto is " Love heals all ".

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