Jacqueline Guenin

Dans une petite ville tranquille, Odile Langlois vient de prendre son poste d'institutrice à l'école Jules Ferry. Élégante et secrète, la jeune femme gagne vite la confiance – et le cœur – de ses élèves. Mais les interrogations sur son passé et son approche pédagogique originale font rapidement naître la défiance chez certains parents et émerger des critiques au sein de l'institution scolaire.

It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all political parties have been outlawed, smoking is illegal and everyone must work. After a spat with her boyfriend, Carole (Laure Marsac) hails a taxi, not realizing that she has done so without any of the money or identification papers she needs. Her driver (Bruno Cremer) attempts to help her, but a variety of mishaps bring her to the attention of the police, who proceed to arrest her on made-up charges and a phoney HIV-positive result on tests given at the time of arrest.