Director : José AlcalaActors : Marie Raynal, Gérard Meylan, Éric Savin, Liliane Rovère, Lyes Salem, Adrien Ruiz, Caroline Baehr, Jocelyne Desverchère, Yves MichelFeature film, Fiction , DramaProduction language : French Nationality : 100% French French release : 10/26/05 Runtime : 1h 40mn Current status : Released Associate production company : Gemini FilmsCo-production : Les Films de la Grande OurseFrench distribution : Gemini FilmsFilm export/Foreign Sales : Gemini Films Synopsis Alex is an independent woman, wild and tough, who loves men and life.
She’s trying to get custody of her son, Xavier.
To live, she works at markets and does house renovating with Karim. She’s renovating a ruin at the edge of an isolated village, spurred on by the hope of living there with her son.
It is life that she restores, plasters over, tries to keep upright in these walls that she rebuilds with her own hands.
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