Daybreak

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing. Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin, a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy... —Yepok In a fit of rage, the honest foundry worker, François, shoots and kills the unscrupulous vaudeville dog trainer, Valentin, with a slim semi-automatic pistol. Now, holed up in his cramped apartment at the top of a narrow six-storey building, François spends a long and sleepless night, recollecting the fateful events before Valentin's untimely death through a series of three interconnecting episodes. Unable--and unwilling--to escape, as the police are closing in on the doomed working-class hero, François recalls his star-crossed love affair with the delicate florist, Françoise, and his tangled relationship with the deceased's former assistant, Clara. Will François find redemption by the first ray of light? —Nick Riganas