France Bastoen

A talented cellist, Marie, is secretly losing her sight due to a degenerative eye disease. Determined to attend a prestigious music school, she strikes a pact with her struggling classmate Victor: she’ll help him with his homework if he becomes her “eyes,” helping her hide her condition as she prepares for the entrance exam. As the two grow closer, their arrangement begins to change both of their lives.

It is the day of the Miss Eternal Grace pageant—the beauty contest popularized by the famous Charlène. Cléo, the heavy favorite, is competing under her mother's tyrannical supervision. But as the evening unfolds and the pressure mounts, something cracks within her, allowing a new emotion to surface.

Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.