Not with Fat Sophie

On her birthday, a single mom tries to bring light in the lives of her two young children by inventing a car game where they conquer hidden corners of their village.

Hugo is an only child. A public altercation seems to confirm the rumor of domestic violence. Passionate about fashion and infatuated with beauty, this teenager dreams of becoming a couturier, like the master of French ready-to-wear Yves Saint Laurent.

This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-seventeenth-century nun and God, her "divine spouse." Fusing documentary and acting by Marie Tifo, whom we follow as she rehearses for this demanding role, the film paints an astonishing portrait of this mystic who abandoned her son and left France to build a convent in Canada, where she became the first female writer in New France.