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Sabine, a 16-year-old girl student at a catering school, thinks one's course is life is quickly laid out. This young girl who is being taught to waitress comes to hate it. She figures that this line of work is a parody of the world where people exploit other people. So it's goodbye to the gloomy provinces and “Paris, here I come !” Ther, Sabine will know how to use her body, not for cynical ends but for the sheer joy of living, which isn't automatically the best way to avoid being taken in. In the brightness of the city lights, Sabine discovers another way to serve dishes, as learns of the vast reaches of servitude, and the eternal and distressing tyranny of money. This film is the story of an average teenager who wonders who she is and of whom society only asks one thing: "What are you good for ?"

France - 2002 - 1 h 27 mn - DV Cam • 16/9 - Colour

Director Christophe Blanc Script Christophe Blanc Camera Isabelle Razavet Sound Olivier Mauvezin Sets François Girard Editing Agnès Bruckert Music Philippe Thiphaine Cast Mercedes Cecchetto, Laura Locatelli, Sarah Zidhane, Jean-Yves Dubois, Nathalie Krebs, Richard Morgiève, Nadine Marcovici

Production Sunday Morning Productions, 25, rue Michel-le-Comte, 75003 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4274 5437 Fax : +33 (0)1 4274 4100 E-mail : sunday@sundaymp.fr Co-Production ARTE France

Sales Sunday Morning Productions, Bertrand Gore, 25, rue Michel-le-Comte, 75003 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4274 5437 Fax : +33 (0)1 4274 4100 E-mail : bertrand.gore@sundaymp.fr