Cap Tourmente

Plot Summary

The Four Winds seasonal hotel, managed by Jeanne O’Neil since the death of her seaman husband, is in a run-down state. Seafaring son Alex returns home, out of the blue, coincidentally arriving at the same time as another unexpected visitor, former hotel employee Jean-Louis. Jean-Louis has reached a crisis-point in his life and is trying to find himself, while Alex has got himself into trouble with drug dealers abroad, and needs to lie low. Jeanne’s heart is no longer in the business, and daughter Alfa is desperate to break out of the rut of her home life and dead-end bar job. Driven by his destructive, childlike impulses, Alex manages to disrupt the composure of all the others, through sexual advances and generally erratic and inappropriate behaviour.