Andre Techine's lush drama follows a close knit group of friends who are faced with the dawn of a sexual revolution in the early 1980s. THE WITNESSES tracks the relationship of a young writer played by Emmanuelle Beart (8 WOMEN, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, STRAYED), her detective boyfriend, a renown doctor and how their lives collide when a young, attractive gay man joins their circle. Set in Paris and the countryside, Techine blends the storylines and parallel lives with an erotic naturalism, yet never ignoring the consequences of sexual freedom.