A deep sea fisherman, Dom, 36, comes home to the mainland for only a few days a month. An occasion every time for him to reconnect with his teenage children, Mailys and Matteo, who do the best they can in his absence. But when Mailys gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby, Dom finds himself forced to rethink his life and his passion if he wants to keep custody of his children...

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A fisherman turned actor awarded for his work at the Mostra in Venice: the whole value of Samuel Collardey’s Tempête lies with Dominique Leborne, a sailor from the Vendée chosen by the director of L’Apprenti and Comme un lion, who delves into the life of this non-actor to drive his story. Leborne also stars with his son and daughter-in-law, and replays with them a wealth of things experienced more or less similarly in their own lives (financial difficulties, intimate conflicts, pub nights). In the tradition of social cinema that rejects the artificial and aspires to an extreme form of reality, Tempête lays a thin veneer of fiction over its characters and events, taking care to hold on to the raw emotion that never becomes melodramatic or simplistic.