Cathy has been preparing herself since early morning. She is about to celebrate her daughter Eva’s 20th birthday. But on this very day, Cathy’s life is turned upside-down with the shocking news that her daughter has been brutally murdered.
Acting
Patricia Kaas delivers a masterclass in contained maternal anguish.
Direction
Binisti's restraint makes every silence scream.
Director
Thierry Binisti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patricia Kaas is primarily a chanson singer; this was her rare dramatic lead, and she reportedly insisted on zero makeup for the funeral scene.
The film adapts real French true-crime cases where parental grief became public spectacle, questioning media's hunger for suffering.
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