SECRET DÉFENSE

When Sylvie, a thirty-year old scientist, discovers her younger brother Paul trying to steal a gun, she is told that their father did not die in an accident but was murdered by a family friend. Fearing that her brother is ready for anything, including risking his life or his freedom, Sylvie decides to act out the revenge in his place. However things do not go to plan when Sylvie mistakenly kills the wrong person and finds that she has been transformed from a righteous avenger into murderess. But this is just the beginning, as Sylvie discovers when she begins to unravel a torrid past affair, and learns the truth about her father’s death. Driven by Sandrine Bonnaire’s outstanding performance as Sylvie, Secret Défense is a brilliantly paced and shot murder mystery that takes on the dimension of a Greek tragedy...