Inspired by the films by Bruno Dumont and the work of ethnologist Jeanne Favret-Saada, Dans le nom is a foray into the contemporary rural world, both technological and archaic. Davy is a livestock farmer who keeps being confronted with problems. But why? Some think it is a curse… It is not so much the solution to the plot than the power of words that fascinates Tiphaine Raffier here. Akin to social painting, sci-fi crime fiction as well as a philosophical tale, her play tries above all to capture the invisible, to spot what is unsaid in what is said. Catching a glimpse of these places where words can become a prophetic illusion, an occult science which binds and impacts destinies.