F 9

At a party, Tristan swallowed a caterpillar while downing a tequila shot. Ever since then, he’s been in a coma, thoughts running through his head – about that girl at the party, the nurse smoking in his room, his overbearing mother, and the fact that he’ll never get to change his Facebook profile picture ever…

Sébastien Chassagne, an actor for film, theater and television, runs a workshop at the Saint-Martin prison on the Île de Ré. In front of him, six inmates, their faces transformed by artificial intelligence, relive scenes from their past, bring dreams to life or invent new stories.

A depressed film director returns to the countryside of his childhood under the pretext of preparing a new film, accompanied by an alcoholic producer. But things don't go according to plan and ghosts from the past resurface.

In 222, during yet another extravagant evening, Emperor Heliogabalus summons Zotikos, his former lover, from prison. Zotikos becomes a firsthand witness to Heliogabalus' narcissistic cult, amidst a spiral of destructive madness that ultimately leads to the emperor's downfall.