Élie Girard sees kebabs as places where everyone goes, but nobody stays. The idea behind shooting the two main characters waiting inside the kebab was to show them as lost, stuck in limbo, while everyone else is elsewhere living their own lives.
First job as a director on a short movie for Élie Girard, after a career as a cinematographer. Ironically, he doesn't feel comfortable watching night movies, so he always thought his first movie would be a summer movie with lots of lighting, and ended up directing one entirely shot at night.
Élie Girard wrote a very detailed script, with every pause or word on the page. Aurélien Gabrielli was very classical and knew his lines by heart, unlike Raphaël Quenard, who is very instinctive and constantly tried to improvise, so there was a lot of back and forth with Girard to find the right mix between the two for the character.
Writer/director Élie Girard first had an idea about a group of friends all receiving a text message at the same time, the birth announcement of their friend's first child.