Tommy, 11 years old, is on the road again with her eccentric parents. This time, her freshly out-of-jail father has promised her: she won't miss the first school-day of the term! That was before her dad stole a sports car, her mother disappeared and an astronaut popped by.
Acting
Rita Merle's deadpan wisdom beyond her years
Direction
Bruno Merle's controlled chaos, barely holding together
Writing
Dialogue that treats children like actual people
Director
Bruno Merle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rita Merle is director Bruno Merle's actual daughter; he wrote the role specifically for her after being fascinated by her natural on-screen presence in home videos.
The film deliberately echoes the French 'boulevard comedy' tradition but subverts it by making the child the only functional adult in the room—a commentary on millennial parenting anxieties.
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