French experimental-short filmmaker Pierre Vinour makes his feature-length debut with the low-budget mood piece Supernova (Experiment #1). Politician Simon Peyrelevade contemplates suicide as he is hit by some unearthly matter. Instead of heading home to Paris, he goes out to his family farm in the countryside. He's visited by a curious doctor and his estranged son Julien.
Distinguished IT expert, Paul has a happy family and wife. He participates in a conference held in a hotel in the mountains of Auvergne with his colleagues to win a project. Due to his agoraphobia, he puts himself in the hotel room, and a mysterious woman in the next room visits Paul and they begin a secret relationship.
The panic of a man in his 60s tormented by doubts, his escape to the Millevaches plateau and the experience of his strange metamorphosis.
