Just the End of the World

"We don't know you."

An autobiographical confession by Jean-Luc Lagarce. Hypnorealism.

The nineties. Louis, a successful, single, childless man in his thirties, returns to his family from Paris to the countryside. He visits home less and less frequently, and much time has passed since his last visit. He comes to share his great and heavy secret.

His mother, his younger brother who stayed to care for her, his brother's wife, and his younger sister. Silence, awkwardness, and faltering conversation. There is work everywhere and everyone is exhausted.

Family as a confrontation of expectations—of each other and of others. Family as a longing to be accepted. Is there a right way to live?