The Bellatrix leaves port at night, with four men on board, including Jacques, a young aspiring officer haunted by the memory of Ana. As he adjusts to life at sea and gets to know the crew, Jacques discovers that someone has been reading his diary, in which he confides his thoughts about Ana. The mystery deepens when, one night, the captain tells him about a woman he once passionately loved, evoking disturbing details that recall the story of Jacques and Ana. Little by little, Jacques believes that these men, isolated for years, are trying to appropriate his memories to fill their solitude. Between fascination and rivalry, Jacques realizes that the captain, aging and almost blind, sees in himself a reflection of the man he once was, rekindling a strange and conflicted bond around the figure of Ana.
A Saga Film (Belgium) production, in coproduction with RTBF (Belgian television), ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, La Sept Unité de Programme Fiction, WIP Wallonie Image Production, with the support of the Ministère de la Communauté Française de Belgique.
Directed by Jean-Claude Riga
Cast: Jean-Claude Adelin, Maurice Garrel, Dominique Pinon, Bernard Ballet
Screenplay: Jean-Claude Riga
Music: Jean-Pierre Urbano
Producer(s) : Hubert Toint
Production manager(s) : Paolo de Sousa (Portugal)
Line producer(s) : Jacques Duquesne, Geneviève Robillard, Hubert Toint
Costumes: Andrée Perpete
Make-up: Françoise Pinzani
Live sound: André Brugmans
Montage image : Marie-France Collard
Sound mixing: Jacques Clisse
Calibration: André Andres
