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In five years, Bill, an ordinary blue-collar middle-aged American, traveled back and forth between Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA, and Marseille, France. He dresses plainly, is not good at words, and always responds to the good and evil in the world with the simplest and most direct words and deeds.
For five years, Alison, an uprooted American girl, has been held in a prison in Marseille, France. With four more years to go, she asked a lawyer to find the real killer, an Arab man named Akim.
Alison's mother died young, and her father was an alcoholic, drug addict, and never home. She was raised by her grandmother since she was a child. The bits that once existed were piled up by the father in a rented warehouse, but were cleaned up due to delays in payment. Far away from her family, she went to France to study alone, and came out to find her partner Lina. Unexpectedly, her lover died and she was imprisoned.
A mix of remorse, firmness, shame, vanity, and responsibility makes Bill, who hits a wall in front of a lawyer, lie to his daughter and start an investigation. Bill finds and misses Akim with the help of a French female neighbor who lives alone with her. In order to rescue his daughter, he stayed as a worker, continued to investigate the case, and lived with his mother and daughter in France.
In a twist, Bill reunites with Akim at the stadium, bundles up in the basement, cuts his hair and asks a retired police officer to check his DNA. But Akim accused Alison of buying the murderer and got her gold necklace with the words Still Water, and Bill swayed.
He was kicked out by his French mother and daughter because he was almost kidnapped by the police. Bill awakened the dusty sense of responsibility through his relationship with the little girl Maya. Maya also missed the rare father's love. Alison was jealous of them and tried to hang himself.
Ultimately, Akim's DNA matched the killer's, and Alison was acquitted. When returning home, it is also a performance moment for American politicians and the media. Meanwhile, Alison, who couldn't forget his lover, stabbed Lina's name on his right wrist.
The absence and reset of fatherly love, the companionship and separation of lovers, the conflict and fusion of English and French, and the disgust and coexistence of whites and people of color are all intertwined in Bill's beloved American country singer Sammi Smith's "Help me make it". through the night".
Matt Damon, your uncle is still your uncle~
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