Antoine Millet

Once a year in the Jewish calendar, everything is upside down: the day of Purim. Karmi invites Gavriel to celebrate with his community. Little by little, delirium overtakes reality.

In one continuous shot, SHTTL shows the lives, loves, and inner conflicts within a Yiddish speaking shtetl on the border between Ukraine and Poland - one day before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

A simple and quiet young man, Ruben faces the ups and downs of his life. But now, in the family, the “lame duck” is his brother. He allowed himself to be drawn by a gang of thugs into a high-risk enterprise. After being badly beaten in a beating, he finds himself between life and death. Fatally invested with a brotherly duty, Ruben goes to find the thugs to try to remove them from his "brother" and put an end to this story. But what was supposed to be an end turns out to be a nightmarish departure.

Since the death of his parents, 10-year-old Leo has been on his own. His brother Bastien is unable to face his responsibilities. Their lives intersect without ever ending up, until the meeting with Julie will change everything.