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In Laetitia’s family, you learn how to grow and live with a genetic neurodegenerative disease, Huntington’s disease, which gradually deprives you of all your faculties. A disease that sets in slowly, at any age, before killing you. The director grew up with the fear of this sickness. There now exists a test to know if she is a carrier of the gene. A 50/50 chance. "Private" diary of this long "presymptomatic" test. This is not a film about illness, it tells the story of a struggle between a family and a terrifying, perverse and multiform enemy she nicknames the octopus.

France - 2009 - 1 h 29 mn - DV Cam • 4/3 - Colour

Director Lætitia Carton Script Lætitia Carton Camera Lætitia Carton, François-Xavier Drouet, Etienne Carton de Grammont Sound Lætitia Carton, François-Xavier Drouet Editing Julien Chigot Music François Pierron

Production Pierre-Olivier Bardet Idéale Audience, 6, rue de l'Agent-Bailly, 75009 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5320 1406 Fax : +33 (0)1 5320 1401 E-mail : bardet@ideale-audience.fr with the  participation of France Télévisions

Sales Daniela Elstner Doc & Film International, Daniela Elstner, 13, rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, France Tél : +33 1 4277 5687 Fax : +33 1 4277 3656 E-mail : d.elstner@docandfilm.com