On a holiday in France, a young woman vanishes at a motorway rest stop; her boyfriend spends three years in obsessive, fruitless searching while the perpetrator — a seemingly ordinary family man — watches calmly from a distance. Sluizer's formally audacious adaptation of Tim Krabbé's novella dismantles genre convention by showing us the killer's psychology in full, building to one of the most psychologically devastating endings in cinema history.
