In eastern France, Alain’s life is turned upside down when his daughter Kelly disappears suddenly at the same time a country and cowboy event takes place in eastern France. When he receives a letter from Kelly asking him to respect her decision to change her life and not to look for her, his wife and son accept it, but Alain refuses. Ready to do anything to find her, he goes off on a dangerous search that stretches out into years and several countries, accompanied by his son…

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Cowboys, the first film by Thomas Bidegain, fits in well with his impressive career as a screenwriter, which spans from the movies of Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, Dheepan) to popular comedies La Famille Bélier and auteur cinema like Saint Laurent and Vincent: elusive, unpredictable, and hard to grasp. The synopsis in no way does justice to this tortuous drama, which counts a number of subplots and takes odd pleasure in immersing the audience in a twisted story that doesn’t respect the usual codes of the genre. The journey is both astonishing and an ambitious project, at the risk of threatening the overall rhythm of a movie that is not entirely successful, but which has the remarkable courage to take on a tough subject that is very contemporary.