A young woman inherits her family’s historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.

The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L’Adversaire’s protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary…