The Poppy
2013 · Released · 20 min
Noémie should be happy. She is young and pretty, has a companion and a job, but she has nightmares, she feels blue all the time and seems to have lost the taste for life. One day she reads a book by Schopenhauer and suddenly understands the roots of her problems. Her childhood dream, becoming a ballet dancer, was thwarted and shattered and fulfillment was denied her...
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