In the House

Germain (Fabrice Luchini, POTICHE, LES FEMMES DU 6th FLOOR ) is a French teacher at a secondary school. He is discouraged by his students' homework until he reads the short story "In the House". In the essay, a 16-year-old boy breaks into the house and family of a fellow student. The author of the story is Claude, an unassuming boy in the back row of the class. Germain enthusiastically reads the essay to his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas, IL YA LONGTEMPS QUE JE T'AIME, HER NAME WAS SARAH) and decides to encourage Claude to continue writing the story. Claude can only do this by breaking into his classmate's house. Why is Claude so obsessed with the house? What is he looking for there? And what happens to his fascination with his classmate's sensual mother? Germain becomes more and more intrigued by the story, but the invasion of privacy leads to a series of uncontrollable events. Germain and his wife get involved in a subtle game in which reality and fiction seem to run away with each other.