Calvaire

“Some people would kill for company.”

A few days before Christmas, in the marshy Hautes Fagnes woods outside Liège, a van breaks down at nightfall. Fabrice Du Welz sends its driver, the traveling entertainer Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas), after a stranger hunting for a lost dog, who leads him to a shuttered inn run by M. Bartel (Jackie Berroyer). Marc only wants a bed and a mechanic, and he is slow to see what he has walked into.