La ambición de Marie

4/21/2026

When Marie (Sarah Lafaurie), an aspiring French chess master who has met with mixed career success, is approached by a mysterious stranger (Eugenio Barona) with a dubious proposal to up her game, she’s simultaneously intrigued and perplexed. The shadowy figure, who claims to represent an antidoping organization that investigates the use of illicit substances, practices and techniques in the world of sports, says he’s anxious to determine if it’s possible to employ a clandestine enhancement method for significantly improving one’s chess skills, and he wants to know if Marie wants to give it a try to see if it works. Given that chess is one sport in which doping has not been an issue (largely because it’s believed it wouldn’t have any appreciable impact), Marie wonders about the value of suc