Torna sul set Arnaud Desplechin (Racconto di Natale, I re e la regina), un dei più talentuosi registi francesi, con un progetto tratto da una storia vera.
Adapted from the 1951 non-fiction account by psychoanalyst Georges Devereux, “Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian,” the film will follow the true story of Picard, a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation, as he returns from WWII and begins experiencing unexplainable medical symptoms shortly thereafter. He then travels to the famous Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where he meets Devereux, thus beginning a professional and personal friendship guided by compassion and understanding of Native American culture.
Devereux è interpretato da Mathieu Amalric, mentre Picard sarà Benicio Del Toro. Nel cast anche Gina McKee.
Le riprese cominciano mercoledì in Michigan.