Shores
On france.tv
The sinking of a trawler in the English Channel leads to the disappearance of 14 fishermen. The gendarmes are exploring several avenues: the conflict with English sailors around the fishing zones, the clandestine actions of environmental activists against the extension of the wind farm… To find the wreck, Ifremer dispatches an oceanographer, Abigail, to Fécamp as well. daughter of the owner of the missing boat.
The return of this local child, who left three years earlier without giving any explanation, awakens old wounds. His research reveals the presence of strange electromagnetic disturbances, which make navigation dangerous. Then begins a race against time to understand what is happening in the bay and contain the anger of the sailors, deprived of fishing and therefore of resources.
From local reality to fantasy
A year and a half after the success ofAbyss with Cécile de France, France Télévisions returns to ecological thrillers and science fiction in this more classic mini-series directed by David Hourrègue (GerminalFrance 2, 2021). The story is anchored in local reality (economic difficulties of fishermen, protests against the wind farm, presence at the bottom of the bay of bombs dating from the Second World War, etc.) to better drift towards the fantastic.
And Shores escapes, alas, neither implausibilities nor clichés, like the irresistible attraction between the gendarme and the oceanographer, it manages to touch the sensitive chord by weaving an unexpected link between the discoveries of the scientist and the intimate drama which hit a few years earlier. Caught in an emotional storm, Fleur Geffrier, seen recently in Drops of God (AppleTV +, France 2) and The Spies of Terror (M6), firmly holds the course alongside old hands: Thierry Godard, as a debt-stricken fishery boss, and Jean-Marc Barr, as a benevolent sea rescuer.