A man of industry and power, Stanislas Graff is kidnapped one morning like any other in front of his building by a group of thugs. Then begins an ordeal that will last several weeks. Amputated, humiliated, denied in his humanity, he resists by leaving no hold to his captors. He accepts everything without revolt, without crying out, without complaint, it is with dignity that he responds to barbarism. Cut off from the world, receiving only snatches of information from his jailers, Graff does not understand why no one wants to pay the sum that would free him. Outside, his world cracks as his personality is revealed. Everything he had managed to keep private, his secret garden, is revealed to his family by the police investigation or the press. Each one discovers a man who is far from the one he imagined. When he regains his freedom, it will be to realize that he has lost everything: the love of his family, the esteem of his colleagues, his power, the confidence of his loved ones. His release will prove to be more difficult to live with than his captivity.
Rapture
A man of industry and power, Stanislas Graff is kidnapped one morning like any other in front of his building by a group of thugs. Then begins an ordeal that will last several weeks. Amputated, humiliated, denied in his humanity, he resists by leaving no hold to his captors. He accepts everything without revolt, without crying out, without complaint, it is with dignity that he responds to barbarism. Cut off from the world, receiving only snatches of information from his jailers, Graff does not understand why no one wants to pay the sum that would free him. Outside, his world cracks as his personality is revealed. Everything he had managed to keep private, his secret garden, is revealed to his family by the police investigation or the press. Each one discovers a man who is far from the one he imagined. When he regains his freedom, it will be to realize that he has lost everything: the love of his family, the esteem of his colleagues, his power, the confidence of his loved ones. His release will prove to be more difficult to live with than his captivity.
