Never Say

A WORLD UNDER SURVEILLANCE 2013. Edward Snowden unearths information classified top-secret by the NSA. The whole world discovers that the government agency is spying on Americans by intercepting their phone calls while monitoring the Internet. Surprised by the general indifference to these revelations, Pascal Ruffenach immersed himself in this affair. He wonders how our intimacies can survive this. And builds, from this subject that concerns us all, an ultra-contemporary fable. ICE AND SAND End of the 2000s. Having just graduated in geography, Eckart left to do his research on a base in the South Pole. Extreme cold, radical whiteness of the landscape, austerity of life. Confronted with this extraordinary loneliness, he immersed himself in the mystical texts that rocked his life and protected him from the world. But one day, Agathe, a brilliant and mysterious oceanographer, upsets her retirement. A love story begins between them. In the heart of the Utah desert, a strange complex. Greyish buildings, barbed wire. In this hostile landscape lies Never Say. This concrete monster receives data from all over the planet. The official reason? The security of American citizens from international terrorism. But unofficially, the agency – led by Gus Hant, its disturbing director – engages in widespread surveillance; a vast radioscopy of the intimacy of individuals. From the tension between these two deserts, polar and desert, a fable is born which questions the survival of our intimacy.