Part police thriller and part exploration of the dark side of men's attitudes about women, Hygiene de l'assassin concerns a young female journalist, Nina (Barbara Schulz). Nina has scored a plumb assignment, an interview with Tach (Jean Yanne), a well-known but reculsive novelist who rarely speaks...
Benji's father has returned from captivity, and his mother is sick and later dies. Through Benji's eyes we see a changing country and a father who cares less about his deceased wife, making some rather unhappy choices in the process.
In 1942, in the middle of World War II, a young boy uses the tales in the 1001 Nights book and the wonderful story of Sheherazade to protect his mother who is engaged in undercover activities with the publisher Editions de Minuit.
