La triche was screened at the NY Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and impressed the Village Voice reviewer, who found it "a turn-on from beginning to end... Seldom have I seen an eye more knowing about sexual yearning, the ache... that can cramp existence for months, years."

La triche is about the relationship between Michel, a cultured but disillusioned police inspector, and Bernard, a young nightclub musician. Michel (the handsome cousin in Cousin, Cousine) has a wife and young son. He has also always been bisexual, and had many one-night stands. He meets Bernard during an investigation, and the two experience a violent mutual attraction. The affair becomes a relationship, then gets complicated when the case under investigation adds a blackmail attempt and murder. Bernard is implicated, and Michel is placed in a dangerous and awkward position. No longer primarily Bernard's lover, Michel must confront him, and is met with defiance. Throughout the film, the men's relationship is played out, sexual nuances and tension included, against the increasinly opposed roles of cop and suspect. A subtle film by writer/director Yannick Bellon, 64, who directs short films for screen and TV and has two other features to her credit.