The Last Days of R.M.

Synopsis

R.M., an Algerian writer in his fifties, is threatened with death in Algeria in the 1990s. Out of fear, he decides to go into exile in the suburbs of Paris. Far from his wife and son, he continues to feel the anguish of the life of a hunted man, along with a dull melancholy.
F-Z, an old writer friend living in Paris, finds R.M. and tries to burst him out of his bubble with little success. Encounters with other intellectuals return him to the position of a writer who has chosen to hide rather than remain in the battle.
As R.M. locks himself away in solitude, he is plagued daily by pain. He is ill and has little time remaining. This injustice pushes him into denial and he sinks into madness, paranoia and the meanderings of his imagination, where characters from his novels appear.