Monday morning. Vincent wakes up at five o’clock, climbs into his beat-up old car and drives an hour and a half to a factory where he’ll spend the entire day in dull and monotonous work – and to top it all he can’t even smoke. After getting back home he’d like to paint a little but family duties keep intruding into the solitude of his studio. Work, wife and kids make his life a living hell. So one day Vincent buys himself a ticket to Venice and simply takes off. Finally he is able to enjoy an ordinary day. He walks through the streets of the town and meets a certain Carlo who offers him a place to sleep over. The alarm clock rings frightfully early: it’s Monday morning and Carlo’s job at the factory (a place where smoking is prohibited) is hard and tedious. Vincent decides to keep moving though he doesn’t know where he’s going. When one evening eight months later he finally returns to his house in the French countryside he finds that his family has barely noticed his absence. He wakes up at five in the morning, climbs into his beat-up old car and drives an hour and a half to a factory where he’ll spend the entire day in dull and monotonous work – and he can’t even smoke. The movie won the Best Director Silver Bear at this year’s Berlinale.