Set across three fragmented timelines, The Other Side is a nonlinear emotional thriller told through the interwoven perspectives of three characters: David, a nostalgic dreamer clinging to the past; Fred, his volatile best friend with dangerous ambition; and Robin, David’s son, summoned decades later through time to bear witness to what shaped him. At its core, the film is a meditation on time, grief, and the delicate chain of choices that defines us.

2000s, Paris. In a dimly lit jazz bar tucked beneath an aging apartment, David and Fred toast to friendship. They live above the bar, broke but bound by dreams and a shared history. Fred is ready to move on; David can’t let go. Their landlord, Antoinette, announces she’s closing the bar. She shows David an old turntable—her “magic device.” She’s half-joking, but it stirs something in him.

Fred reactivates a connection with Moustache, a patriarchal crime boss from his past. A job is proposed: a high-stakes heist to steal a turntable rumored to manipulate time. Fred pulls David in. Marie, Moustache’s daughter and the operation’s strategist, joins the team. Moustache gives them a mysterious vinyl disc.

Late one night, David places the disc on Antoinette’s turntable—and time slips. He finds himself decades earlier, facing a younger Antoinette who explains the device’s real power. Back in the present, David realizes: the real turntable never left the bar. The heist is a lie.

David confesses to Antoinette, confirming he’s the man she once met. She trusts him now. He buys the bar with his remaining savings and begins to pull away from the plan—and from Fred.

Tensions rise. Fred feels betrayed. At a party, David falls in love with Marie. Meanwhile, Fred reconnects with Joan, a manipulative ex-partner who seduces him with validation and ambition. Their dynamic grows toxic. Joan fuels Fred’s ego—urging him to take more, to lead.

David and Fred meet at the museum. David reveals the turntable there is fake. Fred doesn’t understand—he’s too deep. David shows Marie the real device. She reveals her secret: Moustache is her father.

Fred snaps. Moustache, sensing Fred’s instability, shares the myth behind his rise. Fred finds it underwhelming—just another man behind a mask. Enraged, he shoots Moustache in the head and flees with his money. Fred is no longer a friend. He’s something else.

Meanwhile, in the future, Robin, now 25, returns to the empty apartment above the bar. He finds the turntable, photographs, and three numbered records. Playing Record No. 1, he falls through time—landing in the past, staring at the parents he never truly knew.

Over successive time jumps, Robin learns the truth: he was summoned. David and Marie, with nothing left, reached into the future hoping their son could witness and carry their story forward. Robin meets them as people—flawed, loving, frightened. And he begins to see himself.

Fred is coming. The past tightens its grip.

David and Marie spend their final night together. They prepare in silence and leave behind a note to their son.

Robin plays the third record. The apartment is different now. Shadows of violence hang heavy in the air. He hides with his child self as Fred storms in with two goons. A confrontation unfolds like a quiet war—measured, intimate, inevitable.

David, realizing that Robin is watching—and with no way to speak to him directly—makes an impossible choice.

To protect Marie from what Fred might do, and to send Robin a final message, David shoots Marie in front of the glass-top dinner table, grabbing his son’s attention. In that moment, he sends him a subtle cue: “Take a seat.”

Inside the table’s concave base, something is hidden.

Fred kills David. The record keeps spinning.

Robin returns to the present. Tears. Silence. Blood on vinyl. He breaks the final disc. Then—he takes a seat.

Lifting the glass of the dinner table, he finds two leather duffel bags stuffed with money—and a folded note: “Robbie, come back.”

With trembling hands, Robin places Record No. 1 back on the turntable. He picks up the bags.

The needle drops and scratches the disc.