

A Parisian workshop where everyone's stitching secrets, not just suits.
It is 1945 - just a year since the allied troops entered Paris - and Simone arrives for her first day of work at M. Leon's tailoring workshop.
Acting
Farleigh's simmering restraint vs. Ratcliff's live-wire desperation.
Production
Claustrophobic workshop becomes entire world.
Director
Nicolas Kent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the 1980s reckoning with French collaboration, when Marcel Ophüls' Sorrow and the Pity had cracked open national silence.
Sandy Ratcliff, unforgettable as Mimi, was primarily known for soap opera EastEnders; Kent fought producers to cast her.