La vie lointaine

It is a mild winter and Martin has just settled into the isolated house that was his fathers One night at the edge of the woods a strange man called Haruki appears before him He invites Martin to lose himself in the forest in order to encounter a stranger The stranger comes in the form of Yoshido a peculiar Japanese filmmaker who assisted by Mathilde is preparing to shoot a film based on Harukis unfinished novel La Vie lointaine