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Reno is an unscrupulous, fifty-year-old petty crook who wants to change his life. An inveterate race track better, he has bought a horse “with potential” named Capone. Today, his payback deadline has arrived and his creditors, Kehil and Marco are threatening to kill his horse. In a panic, he pulls a gun on them and wounds Marco. Reno has just signed his death warrant. No one wants to help him. He sees only one way out: lie low at Raskine’s, his spiritual father, an ex-con who made himself over in horse racing. But Raskine now lives in Lapland, in northern Finland. Reno doesn’t have a car or driver’s license. Feeling low, he can already see himself as a dead man when he spots a taxi with a trailer. For 30,000 francs (which he doesn’t have), he persuades the cabbie to take him and his horse. But Alex, the cabbie, has problems of his own. He has been living with Carole for seven years and last year their three-year-old daughter died. He still hasn’t got over it and he’s never even visited the child’s grave. The two men, who have nothing in common, embark on a journey of self-discovery to the far north.

France - 2003 - 1 h 30 mn - 16 mm • 1,85 - Colour

Director Jean-Marc Brondolo Script Jean-Marc Brondolo, Olivier Loustau Camera Marie Spencer Sound Madone Charpail Sets Eric Durringer Editing Raphaële Urtin Music Alex Ojasti, Lionel Chatton Cast Serge Riaboukine, Gérald Laroche, Florence Thomassin

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