A modern drama inspired by real events, Heat Wave (Apres le sud) is the feature directorial debut of writer/actor/producer/director Jean-Jacques Jauffret. Deftly exploring the divide between the adolescent and adult worlds, it powerfully juxtaposes amusement, carelessness and passion with ideas of authority, consequence and responsibility.A sweltering afternoon in Marseilles. Four lives intersect: those of Stephane and Luigi, two cousins barely out of adolescence, Georges, a retired worker, Amelie, Luigi's girlfriend, and Anne, Amelie's mother. Four mundane lives full of pain, humiliation, fear and fatigue that converge on a series of tragic events.