Year: 2009
Runtime: 99 mins
Language: French
Director: Sophie Lorain
After her cheating husband's death, 52‑year‑old social worker Gisele becomes obsessed with Yannick, a 19‑year‑old former client who struggles with kleptomania and addiction. Though she fights the forbidden attraction, her sister, employer and her two children each begin to interfere, endangering her clandestine meetings with the young man.
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