Mrs. Cécile GREENBERG-ALWAY
Wife of Patrick Alway and cofounder with him of a company which
makes plastic computer diskettes. Cécile, who is 47, is energetic, sporty, and in good
physical shape. Intelligent and talented, she has succeeded, along with her husband, in
building up a business that makes profits that are astronomical. She admits that before
the departure of her husband she had told him that she wanted to buy out his shares and
have entire control of the company. This transaction was intended to complete the divorce
proceedings already underway. She has a lover, but their relationship is discreet, as he
is a married man with three children.
However, dissimulated beneath a clean-cut, although
hardened face, this businesswoman is a rapacious, money-grabbing person of the worst sort.
She is a hyena disguised as a baby seal that one pities on its icy butcher-block. As soon
as the sun goes down, she is waiting to devour you, leaving aside, perhaps, your brains
for the birds of prey. And this seems to be exactly what this nice lady has done with her
husband.
Mr. Patrick ALWAY
Because he has disappeared, he will not appear in the film except in
the photos intended to help in the search for him. His psychological profile pointed
towards a nervous breakdown, and his doctor has advised him to take a long trip overseas.
As he is a sporty type, the supposed attack by gangsters or hoodlums is an unlikely story,
especially since he has obtained an advanced level of self-defence. He also has a secret
mistress. He is the only other shareholder, with his wife, of the business that has become
international.
Mr. Jean LATOUR
He is the lover of Cécile Greenberg-Alway, and a maintenance
employee in the factory. He has been promoted to Director of Maintenance as a result of
his love affair with his boss. He is really a good guy, only gullible. His recent contact
with money has made him lose sight of reality. His naiveté removes any doubt of his being
a murder suspect. Perhaps for these very reasons, he has been carefully chosen by his new
mistress, who knows how to manipulate him. But can he go as far as murder? This is what we
want to find out.
Mr. Dave SAVARI
This young detective from Quebec, 26 years old, will be assigned to
file the report of the missing person, although he has his doubts. From the very beginning
of his inquest, he senses the manipulatory powers of the plaintiff, Mrs. Cécile
Greenberg-Alway. He can’t keep from recalling to mind the perfect order and sequence
of events from all angles of his inquiry. He feels uneasy about the state of the garage at
the residence, as even the tools are too orderly. It seems unlikely that a manufacturer of
such inventive skill would keep a workshop so clean.
Dave must become familiar with new methods of
investigations and research using high technology, as he will be assigned a foreign
partner from the private sector of insurances. He will provide her with useful
information. He will also fall in love with this young, female inspector.
Ms. Véronica ROSHEM
The private eye of the insurance company, Véronica, who is young,
beautiful, 29 years old and a sexually attractive tom-boy, takes her work very seriously.
As the company is German, Véronica is a German and from the East. She had lived under the
old Soviet regime. Her frame of mind is one of war, and she attacks investigations as
through she were dealing with crimes against humanity. By her determination to find and
capture the real villain, she becomes the symbol of the justice system and justice issues.
Through her we will get to know criminals and their odious acts. Also, through her, the
spectator will experience injustice. That is why her cultural difference is necessary in
order to bring out the fact that the guilty parties who go free in ours, would have indeed
undergone execution in other countries, due to procedures of justice different from ours.
