Nourredine Messaoudene

Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.

Yasmine, a twenty-two-year-old Franco-Maghrebi, has taken to the sea to live her life. She secretly loves N'dé, a black African woman in her thirties. On the occasion of Eid, she visits her family for a few days. Yasmine finds her sister, her father, her mother. With each of them, a relationship is revealed at the same time as an unusual trench warfare emerges, where everyone lives huddled together in their own vital space. Yasmine is overwhelmed by this violence.