Shy and gentle-hearted Étienne (Les Misérables’ Alexis Manenti) relishes the quiet, solitary life on the road as a trucker ferrying goods around French highways. Always on the go, he gets his emotional fix checking in with his sister and beloved nephew but satisfies his more animal urges with the horny dudes he picks up in service station toilets and wooded roadside beats. Almost busted by the cops with Polish driver Bartosz (Julian Świeżewski), the younger man’s sure-footed response gets them out of a scrape that could have cost them their job and their freedom. Pretty soon, they’re going at it in the cramped confines of a truck cabin. As erotic lust shifts gears into an against-the-odds romance, is this the trick that leads to something stronger? A deeply felt road movie with a difference. Winning the inaugural Queer Palm Revelation award at Cannes, debut feature director Pierre Le Gall’s understated yet unmooring vision announces an exhilarating new talent with a keen ear for working-class authenticity, not seen since Josh O’Connor’s fumbling farmer in God’s Own Country (2017).