Real and well-known American cop land, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances and crowded streets, turns into a perfect cinematic scenery questioning the boundaries of reality and fiction, but also narrative codes of cinema.

By subjecting fragments from the film 'Rashomon' by Akira Kurosawa to the mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinating scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. Papillon d'amour produces skewed reflections upon love, its lyrical monstrosities and wounded act of dissappearance.

An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.