[3][4] It stars Jean-Paul Rouve as a bestselling crime novelist who is desperately looking for a new story and hones his focus on the apparent suicide of a small-town woman, a local celebrity, whose life mirrors that of Marilyn Monroe, played by Sophie Quinton.

It grossed over $43,000 in the US,[1][2] and received positive reviews from critics, some of whom compared it favorably to Fargo, Twin Peaks and Laura.

Traveling to the village of his aunt to hear the reading of her will, David Rousseau, an author of crime novels, investigates the death of a beautiful young woman named Candice, an apparent suicide in Mouthe.

Additional filming locations in Doubs included the villages of Les Fourgs, Jougne, Malpas, Rochejean and Malbuisson.

[7][8][9] Filming also took place in March 2010 at the Cité du cinéma in Joinville-le-Pont, located on the grounds of Pathé's former Joinville Studios.