Case 137 — Characters & Cast

To establish what actually happened and to be able to live with the answer. Her drive is less crusading than professional: an almost stubborn insistence that the truth is worth the effort even when the system has no use for it.

She begins as a rigorous IGPN professional who treats the file as a file — refusing to be swayed by her largely male colleagues, refusing equally to assume guilt. As the investigation advances and her personal connection to the victim's town surfaces, her detachment becomes untenable. She ends the film neither triumphant nor corrupted, but worn down: a woman who did the work properly and discovered that doing the work properly is not the same as obtaining justice.

Initially, simply to be present at a protest of his generation and his class; afterwards, to have what was done to him acknowledged by name.

A young man from the provinces caught in a chaotic Paris demonstration, left with a fractured skull and life-changing injuries. His trajectory is the inversion of a hero's arc — he does not develop, he is diminished, and the film's moral weight rests on that irreversibility.

To obtain acknowledgement and accountability for her son — not compensation, but a name, a face and a judgement.

The victim's mother moves from shock to a demand that grows harder and more articulate as the process drags. She embodies the family's refusal to be pacified by procedure, and she is the human link that pulls Stéphanie's past into the present case.