What happens to childhood dreams once you grow up? Do they vanish? No, that would make it too easy to forget the past. We only have one life, and no hour, no minute, no second that ticks by can ever be relived. So if youthful dreams still exist, how do we deal with them on an everyday basis? At what point do bitterness and regret stop us from moving ahead? It was on the basis of such questions that I constructed this film with Florence Vignon, co-writer and lead actress. Like Madame Bovary, the character of Solange Roualt, a traffic warden who always dreamed of being a singer, trails her boredom and regret through an oppressive daily life. She is faced with the choice of carrying on – just sinking deeper and disappearing – or dropping everything and pursuing her dream.

We wanted the film to be funny and poetic in its realism, reflecting all the beauty and all the silliness that life bring us – assuming, of course, we're honest enough to look it in the face.

Stéphane Brizé – Director