Summary
In the shadow of post-war agrarian stillness, a young woman’s existence is fractured by the hollow promises of a transient lover. Abandoned and burdened with the fruit of their fleeting union—her 'gosse'—she is cast out from the bucolic sanctuary of her youth. The narrative charts her grueling metamorphosis as she migrates from the sun-drenched, unforgiving fields of the French countryside to the smoky, neon-laced subterranean world of Parisian cabarets. Here, she reconstructs her identity through the artifice of performance, trading her rural innocence for the sequined armor of a chanteuse. It is a visceral exploration of maternal tenacity, where the protagonist navigates a gauntlet of predatory men and societal judgment, ultimately seeking a precarious redemption in a city that demands everything and promises nothing. The film meticulously deconstructs the 'fallen woman' archetype, replacing moralistic condemnation with a raw, empathetic gaze into the survivalist heart of the female experience.
Synopsis
A woman's journey from country girl to cabaret singer when she is abandoned by the father of her daughter.
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