The scene of the crime was a parking lot outside the office and the boss was killed by a blow to the forehead caused by a fire extinguisher, on which Lisa's fingerprints were found.

She saw the fire extinguisher lying on the road in front of her car, so she picked it up and put it away before driving off, unaware that her boss lay dead on the parking slot beside her.

That night, Julien goes into a bad neighborhood to acquire fake documents; however, he is mugged and robbed by two men posing as the dealers.

The next day, Julien tears out the mind map from the wall and throws all of its contents away in a dumpster before leaving the apartment with Oscar.

Back at a police precinct, Julien's mind map is reassembled from the garbage recovered, but detectives decide it is too late to continue their pursuit, as the Auclers have fled to San Salvador.

These included Liège in Belgium, Meaux a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region, Paris as well as Spain.

As of June 2020[update], the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, and a weighted average of 6.5 out of 10.

The website's critical consensus states, "This taut and snappy French prison break thriller may be suspiciously implausible, but is held together by two fine central performances.

[5] The Observer described it as a "gripping" thriller and continued "The movie invites the audience to empathise with a decent man driven by despair into dangerous criminal activities and we're on his side from start to finish.

An Indian remake, entitled Savi, was released in 2024 with a female protagonist portrayed by Divya Khosla Kumar.