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Directed by Benjamin Rocher (The Horde) and Thierry Poiraud, the two-part film centers around a French Olympic football team that visits a small village in Northern France to play a crucial game in the run-up to the World Cup. But as the apocalypse looms, an epidemic quickly spreads, transforming the players, spectators, and inhabitants alike.
Synopsis
Saturday, the 18th of January 2012. A quarter of an hour before the match. An hour before the apocalypse. In a small village in the northeast of France, Caplongue, lay a nuclear power plant, industrialized agriculture, and a church lower than its unemployment rate but also the football team, which managed to reach the 1/32nd French Final Cup with a lot of courage and talent. The village is all the more jubilating at the idea of receiving the Paris Olympic, a top league club with famous footballers.
For the Paris Olympic, it’s the opposite. The team mustn’t lose. This match, which was supposed to be a formality, has become of paramount importance. Between Paris and Caplongue, there is more than 250kms. It’s a match that opposes the rural to the urban world, the amateurs to the professionals, a province town to the capital, the poor to the rich. While the amateurs give a rough ride to the professionals, an epidemic instantly transforms the players, the spectators, and the inhabitants into strange and enraged creatures.