Overview

• A review in L’Humanité characterizes the film as a powerful hospital thriller that interrogates the deterioration of France’s public health system.
• The plot centers on Adam, a four-year-old hospitalized for severe malnutrition that endangers his life.
• Léa Drucker plays Lucy, a head nurse who defies a court restriction and her hierarchy to keep the mother near the child.
• Anamaria Vartolomei co-stars as the young mother, with the drama unfolding in an intense face-off with Drucker over a single night.
• Running about 1 hour 15 minutes, the film reflects Laura Wandel’s stated refusal to lock viewers into a single truth, as she explains in a Marianne interview.