Schneider vs. Bax (2015) on Netflix

Plot summary

Schneider works as a handyman, a cover for the contracts he carries out for Mertens. On the morning of his birthday his wife Lucy and their two young daughters wake him with presents, and the family is getting ready for a dinner that evening. Mertens telephones with a job he says cannot be postponed, and Schneider, who has promised Lucy he will help, gives in. The target is Ramon Bax, a novelist living alone in a remote cabin by a lake, and Mertens tells him the writer is a child killer. Bax is not alone at the cabin. His younger lover Nadine is with him, his grown daughter Francisca is expected, and his father Gerard turns up with a young girlfriend.