La vie promise

Single mother Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) provides for her daughter, Laurence (Maud Forget), by working as a prostitute in the city of Nice, France. When Laurence rescues her mother by plunging a knife into a violent pimp, the two flee the city and seek out Sylvia's ex-husband, Piotr (André Marcon), in northern France. Once reunited, the family struggles to begin a new life together in spite of the potency of the tragedies and failures that have torn them apart. …