1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stéphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalin's anti-Semitism.
Charlotte Valandrey
as Nadia
Lambert Wilson
as Stéphane
Marthe Keller
as Bronka
Laurent Terzieff
as Moishe
Günter Lamprecht
as Herschel
Laurent Arnal
as Roland
Elsa Lunghini
as Rosa
Isabelle Nanty
as Jeanine
