Anna is a young teacher assigned as a substitute at a challenging middle school in the suburbs of Paris. In her class, Lakhdar, a well-behaved and promising student, has suffered a medical mishap and lost the use of his right hand.
Acting
Demoustier's crushing silent guilt in every scene.
Direction
Tasma refuses easy answers, lets dread accumulate.
Writing
The accident that happens off-screen haunts everything.

Director
Alain Tasma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
French banlieue cinema often explores invisible class barriers; this adds education's complicity to the conversation.
The title refers to multiple breaks: Lakhdar's hand, Anna's moral compass, and the hairline crack between good intentions and irreversible harm.