An Impudent Girl

On the last day of school before summer, Charlotte is checked for her scraped knee and then glimpses a rehearsal video of pianist prodigy Clara Bauman. The moment seeds an obsession, as she views Clara with a mixture of admiration and longing to be part of her world. The encounter marks the start of Charlotte's fixation on sophistication and friendship with Clara.

The next day, Charlotte and Lulu drift past antiques while Clara sits in a car asking directions. Charlotte leads them to a metalworker and learns that Clara wants a piano stool delivered the next day for a show at a rented lake house. When Clara thanks Charlotte, she kisses her on both cheeks, sealing the start of a dangerous curiosity.

Back home, Charlotte reports the encounter to Leóne and endures teasing from her brother Jacky. She yells at Lulu in a fragile moment of envy, and Leóne scolds her. The quarrel deepens Charlotte's longing for Clara as a way out.

Jacky departs for vacation, and Charlotte pleads to go with him, hoping to escape her routine. He leaves with a goodbye kiss but without her, underscoring Charlotte's sense of exclusion. The moment heightens her belief that adventure lies beyond home.

Charlotte lies about her age when she meets Jean at the hotel bar and accepts a ride with him to the lake house. He kisses her on the lips near her home before they travel together, and she goes under the pretense of being his sister to stay longer at Clara's lake residence. The journey marks a turning point into Clara's world.

Charlotte carries Clara's piano stool into the lake house under the guise of being Jean's sister and becomes drawn into Clara's circle. She meets Sam, the concert manager, by the pool while Clara is away, and Clara invites her to stay and even hints at a future role in her world. The day plants the seed of a possible career and a new family.

During a party, Sam dives into the pool to persuade Charlotte to swim, while she is weakened by hunger. She faints and sinks briefly underwater, rescued by others nearby. This moment deepens the sense that Charlotte's ascent is happening at a personal price.

Charlotte phones Sam repeatedly to declare that she is leaving with Clara in July, but no one answers. She later reconnects with Jean and promises to accompany him to the cinema, signaling that her dreams are entangled with the men around her. The ambiguity of her future with Clara intensifies.

After a picnic with Lulu and Leóne, Charlotte agrees to go see The Exorcist with Jean. Later, he takes her to his room, locks the door, and attempts to kiss and push her toward the bed. She frees herself by breaking a spinning globe and escapes, a grim turning point in the story.

Charlotte attends Clara's concert with Lulu and Leóne, but Clara's team keeps her from leaving with the pianist. She slips into the backstage area to speak with Sam, who hints at a formal job as Clara's manager and hands her a letter from Clara. The moment cements the gap between Charlotte's dreams and her reality.

Lulu runs after Charlotte in joy at not leaving, but she ends up bleeding from the nose and fainting. The two girls are taken to a hospital, where the quiet tension around Clara's plans and Charlotte's obsession lingers. The scene underscores the fragile bond between them.

In a children's hospital, Charlotte gifts Lulu a perfume she uses, and the two hold hands as they look out from a balcony. The closing moment hints at a stubborn friendship and the limits of Charlotte's dream against her harsh reality.