They arranged to meet at a café on a blustery Sunday. Clare was older than Roy but carried the same small, decisive chin. She arrived with an envelope of photographs and a tremor in her hands that suggested grief's habit of returning in small, steady waves.

Clare's laugh was quick and brittle. "She didn't like neatness. She liked not knowing. Thirteen, she said, is the number of the day the ledger refuses to balance. It keeps you looking."

: Set and produced in France, the film maintains a European arthouse sensibility, distinct from mainstream adult content. Looking Beyond Volume 13