The Hedgehog

“Let Life In.”

In a building of well-off apartments, eleven-year-old Paloma Josse (Garance Le Guillermic) has decided she will kill herself on her twelfth birthday. Mona Achache follows her through the weeks before, as Paloma films the people around her, while the janitor Renée Michel (Josiane Balasko) and the elegant new neighbor Kakuro Ozu (Togo Igawa) draw her attention. It is a story about how ordinary the reasons to stay can be, and how easily they get missed.