Having been notified that he has just won the Nobel Prize for
literature, Alberto, a writer at the height of his fame, travels to
Stockholm by car. He is accompanied by a young journalist who has
been tasked by a publishing house with covering the event. At
first, the two men find it hard to get on. They belong to
different generations, have different values, and appear to have
nothing in common. But, gradually, they begin to warm to one
another and a cosy father-son relationship slowly develops...
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.