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While author Annie Ernaux travels to Rouen, the city of her youth, for a book signing of her newest book, she is suddenly confronted with a memory that takes her back to the summer of 1958: the summer in which she experienced her first night with a man. An event that would permanently scar her body and her life.\n\nCommentaar Dit beautifully designed drama, based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by the Franse Nobelprijswinnaar Annie Ernaux, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. An intelligent and penetrating film about the gap between the bewildering reality of events at the moment they happen, and the strange unreality years later when we look back on those events. A tender look at the universal process of a young woman who not only learns to understand herself, but also the world of men in which she must navigate.