Lila Gueneau

Marianne, the wife of a wealthy industrialist from Lorraine, envied and admired, a model wife and devoted mother, is about to turn 40, and the comfort of the vast family home has slowly closed its merciless trap around her. So, when the shadow of her past resurfaces, a breach opens. Would another life be possible? And at what price?

15-year-old Emma, pregnant after a rape, defies her repressive rural Protestant community to carve a path of self-determination, transforming trauma into a catalyst for emancipation while confronting the moral hypocrisy of the village and the spectre of World War II around her.