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When Hélène, a divorcee and day care center director, learns of the trap into which her 18-year-old son Paul has fallen, there is no doubt in her mind - she's going to get him out. This fierce blind conviction gives her the strength to confront the disaster without despairing. A mother can do anything and their love will come out all the stronger... After the first reactions of horror, rage and guilt have passed, she concentrates on that one notion as she enters the world of drug addiction (...) What her son is going through is an accident, not an inevitability, and only she can save him. A worthy conviction that illuminates her path with its lulls and relapses, until the day she realizes that she's fighting the wrong battle. It's not up to her to triumph over heroine. Any victory cannot be hers but her son's. Letting go and undoing the excessively strong bonds of love is her hardest battle...

France - 2000 - 1 h 30 mn - 16 mm • 1,66 - Colour

Réalisation Lucas Belvaux Scénario Olivier Massart Image Pierre Milon Son Jean-Paul Guirado Décors Sylvie Salmon Montage Danielle Anezin Musique Riccardo Del Fra Interprétation Valérie Mairesse, Jérémie Rénier, Francis Frappat, Alexis Tomassian, Stéphanie Rongeot, Vincent Gardinier

Production Capa Drama, 80, rue de la Croix-Nivert, 75015 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4045 4800 Fax : +33 (0)1 4045 4810 E-mail : capadrama@capatv.com Co-Production M6

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