Normally I recoil at the thought of a film about a love triangle, but this one works a bit differently. In the best tradition of Hammer meets the "Addams Family", a dismembered hand manages to escape from a laboratory and set across the bustling and perilous city of Paris in the hope that it can be reunited with it's arm. Meantime, "Naoufel" was a pizza boy on his final warning - he tended to be a bit late - when he arrived at the apartment of "Gabrielle". They chatted over her intercom, he tried his best with the temperamental front door and after a few hours took an immediate shine to her. A little investigation revealed that she worked in the local library so he now decided to try and win her affections. What's this all go to do with the disconnected digits, though? Well that becomes increasingly apparent as it fends off peckish rats and pigeons trying to retrace it's steps (or fingerprints) and we learn more of the story of "Naoufel". Though the romance serves as an amiable soft-bed for the story, it's really that of boy and hand that makes this stand out more. It gives us a more creative template to tell his story from his perspective, but also more innovatively, to tell us the hand's story too - all against an emotional, semi-classical and often soloist score that helps to both create tension and diffuse it. There are also quite a few elements from the sub-texts that more subtly connect the hand's disembodiment to the now ordinary aspects of the life of "Naoufel" and allegorically associate the predicaments and opportunities faced by these characters in both positive and negative fashions. I didn't always love the two-dimensional nature of the animation, but once I'd got used to that I saw much more detail from the characterisations assuming almost observational standpoints as their stories play out - sometimes with the bleakness of monochrome and sometimes augmented by some more colourful hues. It takes it's time, that's true, and there are spells when that glacial pace can prove a little frustrating, but I did like the originality of the style of storytelling and it goes to show that plenty of money and endless hours on a keyboard are no substitute for a vivid imagination, a solid story and some hand-crafted drawing.