Nineteen-year-old Laura is stressed by her first year at college when money worries distract her from her studies and so, desperate for cash, she answers an online advertisement for intimate companionship that leads her down a dangerous path.
Acting
Déborah François's raw, unflinching transformation from student to hollowed survivor.
Direction
Bercot's unblinking camera refuses to look away from degradation.
Director
Emmanuelle Bercot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on an anonymous memoir by a real French student; publishers verified her story but never revealed her identity.
Bercot cast actual sex workers as extras and consulted them on authenticity—some walked off set finding the realism too triggering.
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