Based on Voyage à Lointainville by Sylvie Desrosiers, Editions La courte échelle.
Léa, in her forties, single mother of little Luc, 10 years old, is invited to the very obscure 19th Literature Exposition at Lointainville, in the deep Great North of Québec. On the theme of Love... To come out somewhat of her routine life and escape the depressive atmosphere accompanying her solitude, the Swiss writer accepts the invitation.
On the way to Lointainville over the icy and far from everywhere roads of Québec, she is the powerless witness of a terrible accident: a man loses control of his car that then falls from a bridge and disappears absorbed in the icy waters of the river.
After the police have taken her declaration, Léa, still under shock, takes to the road again. A few minutes later she almost faints with fear when the man in the accident appears on her car’s back seat, trembling with cold but very real, and asks her what he is doing there.
Very real, truly ?
Starting from this strange encounter, a relationship will start between these two solitary beings whom a very strong need for love brings together.
Novel writer from Québec, author of a number of books for young people and of two humoristic compendia, Sylvie Desrosiers has also been a journalist, written texts for television and co-written two feature film scripts (Nez Rouge and Duo). She has collaborated as well with Croc magazine for several years under the pen name Éva Partout. Since 1987, she has published twenty novels with the editor La courte échelle, whose Notdog series includes fourteen titles, some of which have been translated to Italian, Greek, Spanish and Chinese.
Jacqueline began her career with a bang in 1989 when she won the prize for the best school film for her seven-minute short “Au bout du fil”, which she wrote and directed. It was shown at Nimes’ International School Film Festival in 1990.
Her other short films have competed at many festivals. Jacqueline’s short film “Utopie hors-jeu” won the 1992 ‘Prix du public’ at the International Comedy Festival at Vevey, Switzerland (appropriately, the adopted home of Charlie Chaplin). Her 30-minute comedy, “Le bonheur à cloche-pied” (1994) was shown at numerous festivals and won the ‘Prix de la Licorne d’or’ at Bludenz in Austria, as well as the prize for best short film at the Uppsala International Short Film Festival in Sweden
In 2003 and 2004 she made two documentaries, each with a running time of 55 minutes: Fribourg autrement and Hafis Bertschinger: l’artiste nomade. Between 1991 and 2009 while creating her own films and documentaries Jacqueline found time to write a dozen short and feature-length films.
She is also the creator and writer of Marilou, a 24-episode series for Swiss television. Currently she has several screenplays in development.
In 1987 a book she co-wrote with Madeleine Denisart was published. Titled Le cigare et les fourmis, it’s a history of women’s work in industry in the Canton of Vaud (Switzerland) from 1850 to 1950.
She is the head of the screenwriting department at FOCAL, the Foundation for professional training in cinema and audiovisual media in Switzerland.