In this popular French success, Angèle and Tony are a mismatched couple in Normandy: Angèle is a young alluring psychopath on probation and trying to get her son back, Tony is a paunchy fortysomething fisherman with his own boat. The fishing port setting is admirably realised and Delaporte, a documentarist making her feature debut, breathes life into the scenes where the reluctant antiheroine is instructed in recognising fish and gutting them. The story however carries little conviction.