The Refuge (film)

The Refuge or Hideaway is a 2009 French drama film directed by François Ozon, starring Isabelle Carré and French singer Louis-Ronan Choisy, who wrote the music for the film and the title song.

Louis and Mousse, a couple in their early 30s, are doing drugs in bed in a luxurious half empty Parisian apartment.

After Louis' funeral and burial, his mother, bluntly, tells the confused Mousse that they do not want an heir for her dead son and that they have made arrangements to terminate the pregnancy.

Some months later, Mousse has found refuge in a seaside country house where she lives as a recluse during the pregnancy she has decided to keep.

Emotionally guarded, her only contact with the outside world is Serge, a local young man, who delivers her food.

Mousse’s quiet existence is disrupted when Paul, Louis’ brother, on his way to Spain, stops at the house to see how she is doing.

There, she becomes distraught by a well-intentioned, but overbearing woman who gives her unwelcome stories and advice about being pregnant.

One day, at an outdoor cafe, Mousse meets an attractive man who hits on her.

Paul talks about his adoption while Mousse begins to achieve a degree of emotional closure about her relationship with Louis.