A modern drama inspired by real events, Heat Wave (Apres le sud) is the feature directorial debut of writer/actor/producer/director Jean-Jacques Jauffret. Deftly exploring the divide between the adolescent and adult worlds, it powerfully juxtaposes amusement, carelessness and passion with ideas of authority, consequence and responsibility.

A sweltering afternoon in Marseilles. Four lives intersect: those of Stephane and Luigi, two cousins barely out of adolescence, Georges, a retired worker, Amelie, Luigi's girlfriend, and Anne, Amelie's mother. Four mundane lives full of pain, humiliation, fear and fatigue that converge on a series of tragic events.