Copyright 2025 Hisham Bizri
Introduction.
Imagine a world where love exists on the brink of collapse, where each tender moment is shadowed by threat. Channeling the loving intimacy of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the mystery-laced erotic tension of Hitchcock’s Notorious, the film unfolds like a confession whispered in a storm. In a world where light reveals and blinds in equal measure, two brilliant architect lovers must navigate betrayal, memory, and spiritual erosion as the weight of a deadly building collapse threatens to expose the sins of a past too intricately designed to escape.
Logline.
When a celebrated architect is accused of causing a fatal building collapse, he flees with his lover to her ancestral mountain home, only to discover that the key to their redemption, and damnation, lies buried in the secrets they swore never to speak.
Synopsis.
Gabriel Lefebvre, a Franco-American architect at the height of his career, finds his life shattered after a building he designed in Paris collapses, killing two and igniting a media firestorm. With his reputation in ruins and official documents mysteriously vanished, suspicion falls squarely on him. Desperate and disoriented, he escapes to a snowbound alpine villa with Miriam Scholl who is his lover, muse, and daughter of a powerful European family with ties to the Church and a buried wartime past.
In the shadow of the mountains, the couple clings to each other amidst encroaching dread. But as snow seals them off from the world, old tensions resurface: secrets, betrayals, and a growing sense that someone, perhaps even Miriam herself, is manipulating events to shape Gabriel’s fate.
Haunted by memory and tormented by guilt, Miriam spirals into paranoia, unsure whether the trap they are caught in was built by others or by herself. When news breaks that Samuel Sitte, their former mentor and accuser, appeared to have committed suicide, the line between innocence and guilt, love and possession, begins to blur irreparably.
Echoing Romeo and Juliet, the film’s climax arrives not with reconciliation but with irrevocable rupture. As truths emerge, Miriam and Gabriel must confront the final, devastating question: Can love survive the full exposure of the self? Or is intimacy, like architecture, a structure doomed by the flaws of its foundation?
