Boulomsouk Svadphaiphane

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.

Claudia is an unlucky and fatalistic young woman. During an esoteric event in a bookstore, a disturbing apparition in an aura photo will turn her day and her friend Antonia’s upside down.

Gloria, Lili and Amir rehearse a Noh play under the strict direction of Master Hiro. The premiere is in a few hours, Amir has trouble concentrating due to the incessant noise of the door slamming, Lilli's awkward position on stage makes it difficult for her to perform, and Gloria, the great admirer of the master suffers from knee after injury. Nothing is going well and the master has disappeared. He is locked in his dressing room from which a thick smoke comes out. In search of their master, the three actors discover that this committed director never wrote his plays, that he stole them from his childhood sweetheart.