In the late 1970s, Eva is a 20-year-old who has grown tired of her life as
a stripper in a seedy Barcelona nightclub. On the spur of the
moment, she decides to chuck it all in and pursue her dream of living a 'normal'
life. She heads for France with the intention of finding an honest
job and an attentive husband with whom she can start a family. Arriving
in Paris, she finds accommodation with a supposedly gay friend, but before
either of them knows it they are deeply in love with the other. Could
Eva's dreams of a normal existence be threatened by an all-consuming passionate
love affair, or is this the beginning of what she had set her sights on,
her first step on the road to true and lasting happiness...?
Cast: Aure Atika (Eva),
Jean-François Balmer (Albert),
Philip Bartlett (Peter),
Catherine Benguigui (L'employée de la mairie),
Magaly Berdy (Une collègue d'Eva à la mairie),
Leonello Brandolini (L'éditeur),
Claude Chabrol (M. Denis),
Rossy de Palma (Chichi),
Bass Dhem (Le chef de l'État Civil),
Jacqueline Doyen (La bourgeoise),
Horace De Gunzbourg (L'enfant au poisson),
Cyliane Guy (Une collègue d'Eva à la mairie),
Sylvie Huguel (La patronne de l'auto-école),
Keziah Jones (Théo Johnson),
Bernadette Lafont (Lucie),
Santiago Lajusticia (José),
Jérôme Le Paulmier (Le pêcheur),
Juan Eduardo López (Le bonimenteur),
Marilu Marini (Tatiana Gracchi),
Jonathan Metayer (Le bébé 1)
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 95 min
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