Léa (2011)
Directed by Bruno Rolland

Film Synopsis

Whilst studying at college in Le Havre, Léa, a young woman in her early twenties, devotes herself to looking after her elderly grandmother.  She just about manages to get by on what she earns as a waitress in a nightclub.  Léa has grown tired of her humdrum existence in this provincial backwater and dreams of studying at university in Paris.  The only thing that stops her pursuing this ambition is her reluctance to part company with her grandmother, the only member of her family she has any affection for.  In the end, she decides to place the old woman in the best care home money can buy, but for this to be possible Léa must find herself a well-paid job.  So, whilst she begins her degree in political studies in earnest, she takes on work as a striptease artist...