Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen years old when she meets Gabriel Matzneff. A highly intelligent and manipulative man, the renowned fifty-year-old writer seduces the youngster. The teenage girl becomes the lover and muse of a man celebrated by the world of culture and politics. Losing herself in the relationship, she gradually begins to realise how destructive and abnormal the situation is, before finally seeing Matzneff as the predator he really is.

• France-Belgium.
• Direction: Vanessa Filho.
• Production: Carole Lambert, Marc Missonier / Moana Films, Windy Production, Panache Productions, La Compagnie Cinématographique, France 2 Cinéma, Les Films du Monsieur, RTBF.
• Screenplay: Vanessa Filho, Vanessa Springora, François Pirot.
• Photography: Guillaume Schiffman, Richard Deusy.
• Music: Audrey Ismaël, Olivier Coursier.
• Edition: Marion Monestier, Sophie Reine.

• Cast: Kim Higelin, Jean-Paul Rouve, Laetitia Casta, Élodie Bouchez, Jean Chevalier, Lolita Chammah.

Q&A

• Gema Varona (Director of the Basque Institute of Criminology)
• Javier Gómez Zapiain (President of the Basque Society of Victimology)