Character Relationship Map: Titane

Characters

• Vincent (played by Vincent Lindon) — protagonist

  Vincent is a fire captain and the father of the missing child whose identity Alexia / Adrien adopts. He accepts the imposture without a DNA test, protects the traumatized young person, and gives them...

• Alexia / Adrien (played by Agathe Rousselle) — protagonist

  Alexia / Adrien is the central character, a motor-show performer and serial killer who has a titanium plate in the skull. After becoming pregnant through a sexual encounter with a car, Alexia disguise...

• Justine (played by Garance Marillier) — supporting

  Justine is Alexia's coworker at the motor show. At a house party, she begins having sex with Alexia, but the encounter changes when motor oil emerges from Alexia's body and Alexia discovers that she i...

• Adrien's Mother (played by Myriem Akheddiou) — supporting

  Adrien's Mother is Vincent's long-estranged ex-wife and the mother of the child whose identity Alexia claims. When she visits the fire station, she discovers Alexia's advanced pregnancy beneath the di...

• Alexia's Mother (played by Céline Carrère) — supporting

  Alexia's Mother is one of Alexia's distant parents and is present in the aftermath of Alexia's childhood injury. She appears unaware of Alexia's crimes and remains disconnected from her adult life. Wh...

• Alexia's Father (played by Bertrand Bonello) — supporting

  Alexia's Father is one of Alexia's distant parents. He is present during the childhood car accident that leaves Alexia with a skull injury and a titanium plate, but their relationship later remains em...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Alexia's Mother → Alexia / Adrien (mother)
• Alexia's Father → Alexia / Adrien (father)
• Adrien's Mother → Alexia / Adrien (mother)
• Alexia / Adrien → Justine (Romantic Sexual Partner) — Their brief sexual encounter is part of Alexia's unstable adult relationships.

  At a house party, Alexia starts having sex with Justine before the pregnancy crisis interrupts them.

• Vincent → Alexia / Adrien (Family Father) — Their relationship is built on Vincent's paternal attachment to the identity he believes is his son.

  Vincent is identified as Adrien's father and accepts Alexia, disguised as Adrien, as his missing son.

Story Analysis

A violent transformation becomes an unexpected story of identity, bodily otherness, and chosen parental attachment.

Plot Progression

1. Metal and Desire — Alexia's childhood crash leaves her with a titanium plate and a lasting fixation on cars. As an adult showgirl, she kills an admirer and encounters a sexually responsive Cadillac.
2. Pregnancy and Flight — Alexia's pregnancy becomes undeniable after a failed abortion attempt at a party. She murders Justine and others, burns her home, and abandons her former identity.
3. The False Son — Alexia impersonates Adrien and is accepted by Vincent, who brings her into the fire station. Their arrangement is threatened by suspicion, Vincent's possessiveness, and his physical decline.
4. Chosen Fatherhood — The secret pregnancy is discovered but concealed, while Vincent gradually recognizes the truth behind his delusion. He nevertheless chooses to treat Alexia as his son.
5. A Titanium Birth — Alexia's body breaks down as labor begins. Vincent helps her deliver the child, and his repeated assurance that he is present closes the story.