With Heaven’s Help: The new Canale 5 TV series between murders and spirituality

canal 5 proposes the french tv series With Heaven’s help. A policewoman and a young cleric investigate crimes affecting their area, discovering that their mutual differences are their strong point.

Departs November 22nd on Channel 5 the tv series With Heaven’s help. The protagonists of the story are a young police captain half Arab and half Jewish, atheist, and a young friar who is about to take his vows, played by Sabrina Ouazani And Mathieu Spinosi.

The plot of the TV series With the help of heaven

Channel 5 TV series With Heaven’s help begins when Elli Taleb, a completely atheist young police captain, is entrusted with an investigation into the death of a monk, brother Benoit, inside a monastery. At his side, to give her a hand, there will be the thirty-three year old Clément, who is about to take his vows. Orphaned, Clément has spent his entire life in the monastery and has no knowledge of the modern world, except through the books he has read and the university courses he has followed by correspondence. Friar Benoit was the one who had taken him under his wing and mentored him.

While Clément will make Elli discover the mysteries of monastic life, the young policewoman will help him face the world outside the convent walls and get back on track of his past. What appears to be a single investigation, however, will mark the beginning of a collaboration which, moving forward, will lead the two to investigate the death of a scout leader, a university professor and the owner of an accommodation along the way to Santiago. Each time, the search for the culprit won’t be easy: nerves and beliefs will be put to the test and appearances completely reversed.

With Heaven’s Help: The Two Protagonists

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Sabrina Ouazani.

Mathieu Spinosi.

Elli and Clement, two characters at the antipodes

With Heaven’s help, the Canale 5 TV series, proved to be an unexpected success in France, Switzerland and Belgium. Born as a simple TV movie, it soon turned into an event series, of which six episodes have currently been made. The last two, shot between June and July 2022, are still unpublished and will be broadcast in France in January 2023. The investigations at the heart of the episodes are conducted by an unlikely duo of detectives who discover that their strength lies precisely in their diversity on life matters.

“Elli is unique, quite easygoing and with a strong character,” the actress commented Sabrina Ouazani. “She is an enterprising woman who knows her way around and where she wants to go, even if she is very impatient with life. I like her encounter with Clément, an incredible character, very composed, who lives in a completely different world from Elli’s. The knowledge will turn both lives upside down.”

The two find themselves investigating several murder cases together. But the young religious’s passion for crime should not surprise: Clément, after the first episode, decides to stay in the convent by extending his novitiate but taking a degree in criminal psychology. And don’t even scare the fact that he is a religious: for him, the experiences outside the monastery are proof of his strong spiritual commitment.

More than on religion the screenwriters of the Canale 5 TV series With Heaven’s help – Marie Deshaires, Catherine Touzet and Josselyn Bossenec – have in fact wanted to focus on spirituality. “Clement’s reflections are right and sometimes allow us to question Elli’s values,” they said. “We read a lot and discussed the issues that Clément could tackle. We didn’t want to present a treatise on philosophy or theology but to offer reflections on a world that seems to travel at a different speed”.