QUI A VOLÉ LE REFRAIN(Who Stole the Chorus)

The record is still there. The chorus isn’t. Nobody in Paris finds this strange. Paris, 1947. A veiled woman walks into a private detective’s office at seven in the morning and reports a theft: someone has stolen the chorus of a song. Not the record — just the chorus. He takes the case. He questions a concierge, a busker, a child on a carousel. Every one of them gives him the melody without knowing it. He writes it all down as evidence and files it under dead ends. By the time the whole city is quietly humming his four notes back at him, he is the only person in Paris who still can’t hear it. Three minutes, no dialogue, one stolen refrain. Everything you see was generated with AI and animated in a stop-motion puppet style. The song was written and produced for this film — the whistled four-note hook is the case itself.