Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to take shape.
Gianina
Madame Anne
Louen
Kalil
Marguerite Donnadieu
Pierre Donnadieu
Ilinca
Maria
Bunica
Theatre Member
Theatre Member
Louve
Theatre Member
Theatre Member
Jacques
Pascal
Marcus
Agathe
Marie
Alice
Maria's Friend
Worker
Worker