In Switzerland, where the status of women is clearly privileged, it may seem illegitimate to express unease and discontent. Yet, caught up in the balance between what they feel they owe to the community, demanding family patterns and still pervasive male domination, women in their thirties often have, at some point, the feeling that their lives are slipping away from them. When they thought they had the cards in hand, they realize that others are putting them down for them. How, then, to trace its path without making concessions?
—Le CinéAtelier Sàrl