In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different road.
Alix
Emmanuelle Devos
Man
Gabriel Byrne
Rodolphe
Gilles Privat
Diane
Aurélia Petit
Olivier
Laurent Capelluto
Woman at the bank reception
Noémie Landreau
Alix's mother (voice)
Françoise Lebrun
Antoine (voice)
Denis Ménochet
Young man who is doing the casting
Sébastien Pouderoux
Theater administrator
Olivier Broche
Actor from Ibsen's play
Eddie Chignara
Actress from Ibsen's play
Victoria Quesnel
Camille, assistant
Anne- Élodie Sorlin
Actress who does vocalizations
Odile Grosset-Grange
Traveler on the train
Laurent Desponds
Doctor passing by
Delphine Zingg
Passerby when Alix is leaning against the post
Maxence Tual
Customer of the Bistrot Gourmand
Jean-Charles Clichet
Boss of the café "le Marie Stuart"
Hervé Dandrieux