A new Franco-Belgian comedy-drama follows a group of women finding new life and connection in rehab.
Suzanne, an alcoholic mother, finds her world upended when she gets into a car accident, and is forced to relinquish custody of her children. Placed in rehabilitation with other addicts, including a fading actress and a party girl in denial, she finds ways to start again – but their caretaker’s unusual methods, including entry in a Moroccan desert rally, will not make things easy. Writer-directors Elsa Bennett and Hippolyte Dard tackle the tricky, under-represented, topic of female alcoholism with the serious focus it needs, while finding plenty of unforced, character-based humour in the process.
A small scale and lack of melodrama allows its ensemble cast to shine, showing the road to recovery in all its shared awkwardness, pain, and joys.
