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(French) Writer/director Xavier Durringer teams up with co-screenwriter Patrick Rotman to chart French President Nicolas Sarkozy's (Denis Podalydes) rise to power, and the gradual deterioration of his marriage to his second wife, Cécilia (Florence Pernel). The day is May 6, 2007, France's run-up to the presidential elections. As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has shut himself away in his home. Though Sarkozy soon learns he has won the election, he is alone, gloomy and despondent. For hours he has been trying to reach his wife, Cecilia, to no avail. The last five years start to unfurl before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy's unstoppable ascent to power, riddled with in-party backstabbing, media manipulation, riots, sarcastic confrontations and extra-marital affairs.