The young Belgian director Delphine Girard is about to start shooting her first feature film, Quitter la nuit [+leggi anche:
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In Une soeur, we crossed the destinies of three characters brought together in spite of themselves by an attack: a man, a woman, and another woman on the other end of the line, who takes the emergency call from the first. Quitter la nuit finds them again and wonders about their future. During a party that goes wrong, Dary assaults Aly, Aly calls the police, Anna takes the call. In the aftermath of that night, they must face the echoes of this violence that changed all three of them. Aly tries to get on with her life and minimise the effects of the attack on her life. Dary tries to tell himself a version of events he can live with. Anna decides she wants to remain part of the story. What would justice and repair mean?

Delphine Girard is back with her excellent cast. Veerle Baetens (the heroine of The Broken Circle Breakdown [+leggi anche:
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The director also reunites with her cinematographer Juliette Van Dormael, and a large part of her technical team, notably Eve Martin for the art direction and Damien Keyeux for the editing.

As with Une soeur, the film will be produced by Versus Production (Belgium) and co-produced by Haut et Court (France), Colonelle Films (Canada) and The Reunion (Belgium).