Packed with small gestures, Mouton (Sheep) is a highly original debut by the two directors Marianne Pistone and Gilles Deroo. Young Aurélien works in the kitchen of the local fish restaurant in the little town of Courseulles-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast. We get to know him as a cheerful seventeen-year-old with a simple life, loved by those who take the trouble to get to know him. Until, halfway through the film, he disappears after a bizarre accident with a chainsaw during the ‘Fête de la Sainte-Anne’.