After her father's death Angele (Pauline Parigot) inherits her father's scrapyard. She comes back from her college to be there because there is no one else to run it. There is a migrant Farid (Mourad Boudaoud) who used to work with her father and continues to work there helping Angele. And there is also a pet dog.
Angele in her depression of losing her father - remembers him with little things of her father that are still around in the scrapyard office - where she sits. She roams alone in the scrapyard/ junkyard aimlessly without a purpose.
One morning a middle-aged-man named Charles (Antoinee Chappey) comes in search of a red Opel Corsa car that might be somewhere in the junk/scrapyard. Angele helps him out to find that car and knows from him that he lost his daughter in an accident in that vehicle.
That night due to barking of the dog, Angele wakes up and finds Charles sleeping in that Red Opel Corsa car. Angele gives Charles a shoulder to lean and cry on and later invites him for a cup of morning coffee in the office.
Both are remorseful and sorry for their state and losses. They find an uncanny silent bond with each other. Charles collects the cassette from the car music player that his daughter was listening to while she was driving when the accident happened. Through Angele - Charles tries to find out today's youth's interests in life - thus a hopeless attempt to connect with his daughter.
Angele misses her father and is not able to bear the pain of this stranger's longing for his daughter who has died.
To hide her tears - she walks away from the office.
The movie is sombre, sad, dark and sorrowful.
Directors Matthieu Chatellier, Daniela de Felice have created a beautiful short - through their insightful writing, direction and cinematography.
The movie pitches the right notes of LOVE longings.
All the actors have played their roles well and the scrapyard acts as a full-fledged back-ground character in the movie to create that dark/gray eerie sad feel to the scenes.
I would go with 7 out of 10 for this well made little gem that brings a lump in the throat by the end of it.
