Not powerful nor very smart but good enough to prevent audiences to sleep or get bored. Long in length but not on the story telling. Good acting but bad cast, many goofs, such as this one, where one of the persons on the French market to whom the couple show the pictures of their kids, is precisely the peasant who helped them to get their wrecked car from the accident place before calling the police. But the man in question wears a wig.... So, the producers only used the peasant character to economize on extras... This is maybe not a mistake after all; in the story it was not supposed to be the same man. See what I mean? But yes, this is an effective thriller, drama, though not flawless, far from that.