Pas douce (2007)
Directed by Jeanne Waltz

Film Synopsis

Frédérique is a woman in her mid-twenties who is already sick of life.  She has grown to despise all men, having been maltreated by her father and rejected by her lover.  Nothing in life interests her any more, not even her work as a nurse.  She makes up her mind to kill herself.  So, with that end in mind, she goes off into the woods with a rifle and looks for a quiet spot where she can end her days.  Before she can bring herself to commit this last act of desperation two rowdy teenage boys appear from nowhere.  Taken by surprise, Frédérique turns the gun on them and lets off a bullet.  One of the boys, 14-year-old Marco, is hit and drops to the ground.  Frédérique runs off in a panic but quickly comes to her senses.

No one saw her fire the shot, so what does she have to fear?  She decides the best thing is forget the incident ever happened.  But what goes around comes around...  Resuming her duties as a nurse, Frédérique is surprised when she is required to attend to Marco's injuries when he is brought into hospital.  After sustaining a nasty leg wound, the boy has every reason to be angry, but he is aggressive by nature - the result of his neglected upbringing.  Like Frédérique, he has been badly used by life and is driven to rebel.  Although she is reluctant to have anything to do with the wild youth at first, gradually Frédérique begins to warm to him, realising that they share a common grievance, both being the victims of a hostile world.  The time comes when she feels she must confess to Marco that she was the one who almost killed him...