Jim’s stepfather, Aymeric, met his mother, Florence, when she was six months pregnant. The three of them lived a happy life in the Jura region until his biological father, Christophe, returned after a personal tragedy. Aymeric felt out of place and, distancing himself from his son, decided to make a life elsewhere. But years later, twenty-three-year-old Jim came knocking on Aymeric’s door. With this adaptation of Pierric Bailly’s novel of the same name, the Larrieu brothers, who until now had limited themselves to epicurean comedies, offer us a film equally sentimental and melodramatic, venturing into harsher and more moving narrative territory than usual. A subtle meditation on family ties—those that unite and those that constrain—and a delicate portrait of a man who becomes a father by chance, Jim’s Story is a film more socially grounded than the duo’s previous films, and boasts a novelistic depth unprecedented in their filmography.