Villa Wintrebert

Banyuls-sur-Mer, French Catalonia: one hot summer in the 1970s, the

lives of three generations of women converge in the long tropical

garden hidden behind the Villa Wintrebert, named after the biologist who

lived there with his wife. As in her debut After Nora (2024),

Penelope Curtis deftly weaves fact and fiction in this moving story of

childhood and of adult complicity. Harmony beween la belle

Eugénie and the young Monique is disrupted when a well-intentioned

commission to the renowned local sculptor, Aristide Maillol, shines a

light on the fundamental fragility of the women’s relationship, on which

the villa and its garden had depended. Decades later, Monique invites

Eva and her two little girls into the villa, where traces of the past

imprint themselves on the present.