Delfine Bafort

After a car accident in the Sahara leaves her lost and amnesic, a young woman is helped by a reclusive architect claiming to be her husband.

Steve, a diminutive ex-con trying to go straight, struggles to accept his burgeoning relationship with Sky, an uninhibited statuesque blonde dancer. When Sky's abusive ex-boyfriend returns to retrieve his lady, Steve must summon the courage to act on his feelings and save her.

Johan Grimonprez's ingenious documentary-fiction hybrid examines Alfred Hitchcock's ‘50s-’60s films against the climate of Cold War anxiety.