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Jean-François TAVER, Dinh MADENGUE | France | 2015 | 15 m

Victoria TOLLIER thinks that she is 36 years old and tells her story: she was born on September 24th, 1968 in Fontenay le Vicomte in Vendée. Victoria and Joseph get married very young and have two children. Théodore, her son and elder child, who, as Victoria hopes, will become a great chef. As for her younger child, Perrine, she sees in her the potentiel to become a French champion in athletics.Théodore is 20 years old. He is with his elbows resting on barrier and seems pensive. A dealer comes to meet him and gives him a sachet of powder. Théodore pays him and goes away to prepare his dose in his car. Perrine, 16 years, wanders the streets with such a dirty look in her eyes that one can perceive flames of hatred in them. And, when she meets a young man who is on the phone, she mugs him and steals his mobile and his wallet. Victoria’s dream to become a lawyer died out slowly. Between the blindness of love, the education of her children and the housekeeping, she quickly became an ordinary housewife. Her relation with her husband becomes more and more complicated involving quarrels and violence. One evening, everything falls apart. In a fit of madness, exceeded by the threats of her husband and terrorized by the idea of being agressed again, she murders him of 33 stabs in front of her 10 and 6 years old children. Victoria’s dream to become a lawyer died out slowly. Between the blindness of love, the education of her children and the housekeeping, she quickly became an ordinary housewife. Her relation with her husband becomes more and more complicated involving quarrels and violence. One evening, everything falls apart. In a fit of madness, exceeded by the threats of her husband and terrorized by the idea of being agressed again, she murders him of 33 stabs in front of her 10 and 6 years old children.