A young girl is unexpectedly taken into foster care and begins to build new relationships in this sensitive Cannes award-winning study of parental abuse.
Dalva, 12, lives alone with her father. One evening, the police storms into their home and takes her into foster care. As Dalva befriends her new roommate Samia and social worker Jayden, she gradually comes to understand the love she shared with her father was not what she thought. With their help, Dalva will learn to become a child again.
First-time feature director Emmanuelle Nicot handles difficult subject matter with sensitivity and delicacy, creating an assured and beautiful portrait of friendship, recovery and identity.
- DIRECTOR: Emmanuelle Nicot
- CAST: Zelda Samson, Alexis Manenti, Fanta Guirassy, Marie Denaurnaud
- LANGUAGE: French with English subtitles
