In the early hours of August 31, 1997, France, and soon the whole world, are awakened by brutal news: Diana, Princess of Wales, is dead. In the middle of the night, she was the victim of a car accident in the middle of Paris! The black Mercedes in which she had been seated with her companion at the time, the Egyptian billionaire Dodi Al-Fayed, their bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, and the driver, Henri Paul, hit head-on the thirteenth pillar of the tunnel from the Alma bridge. Dodi Al-Fayed and Henri Paul were killed instantly; Trevor Rees - Jones is seriously injured. Diana, rushed to the Salpêtrière hospital, died a few hours after the shock as a result of her injuries.

The event is considerable, full of political and diplomatic resonances...And the emotion is planetary. Everyone wants to know more. Who owned the car? Where was she heading like this? The paparazzi who pursued the star couple of this summer of 1997 are immediately singled out. Then the rumor swells: what if it wasn't really an accident? In a few days, what is put in place are the elements of an enigma capable of inflaming the imagination.

L'HEURE H returns to the circumstances of this highly publicized death, like the life of the Princess of Wales, which made the front page of the British and world press for sixteen years. From a tricked-out fairy tale to a seemingly banal accident, from his meeting with Dodi Al-Fayed to that tragic day on Saturday August 30, 1997,

L’HEURE H spells out in detail the key moments of this event based on precious testimonies and a strong and rhythmic narration.

Written by Franck Ferrand and Camille Ménager
Directed by Camille Ménager and Nicolas Druet