★ 坎城影展 正式競賽片
★ 法國凱薩獎 九項入圍

不知自何時開始，擁有天然奇景的美麗海灣失蹤事件頻傳。兩名糊塗警探受命前來調查，將焦點鎖定每逢盛夏前來避暑的上流貴族，以及沉默寡言、行事神祕的擺渡?家。案情膠著之際，年輕單純的撐船小伙竟與擁有少女春?的俊美貴公子墜入愛河。神祕的案件，無解的愛情，誰說潮水退了，真相就要浮現？

The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family-among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi-have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitutionals is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors investigating a string of tourists gone missing (and serving full-on Keystone Kops). As the macabre mysteries mount and love blossoms between the family's genderqueer teen and the son of a local fisherman, Binoche and company ratchet the slapstick up to eleven. It's no wonder director Bruno Dumont (Li'l Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915) cites Peter Sellers, Monty Python, and Laurel and Hardy as cinematic influences for his delightful foray into winking, absurdist farce.