An intriguing examination of two contrasting lives that intersect thanks to some soluble aspirin.

Weathered-looking Milan (the Man on the Train) rolls into town with no place to stay, but thanks to a chance encounter in a pharmacy he soon has a place under the roof of retired poetry teacher Monsieur Manesquier.

The film unfolds by examining the men’s two lives as each sizes up the other. The result is a compelling examination of what it’s like to realize that perhaps you didn’t take the right path after all, done in an unhurried character-driven style that seems somehow very French.

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