La nuit du 12

Detective Yohan Vives has just been promoted to the position of squad leader. A few days later, Clara, a young 21-year-old, is burned alive by a hooded person as she was walking home in the outskirts of Grenoble. The audio and testimonies lead the investigation to the questioning of a gallery of men who had had recent contact with Clara—boyfriends, former boyfriends, some stalker, all of them with the same violent and abusive behavioral pattern, but with no concrete proof that would incriminate them. Without it being the first police procedural that tackles an unsolvable case, The Night of the 12th has the unique courage of focusing on the social and cultural responsibility of misogynistic violence. That anguish that eats Captain Vives is explained not through an obsession with finding out the truth, but perhaps for knowing it all too well.