It takes place in Marseille and we follow the life of a mother from North Africa who has to juggle during her daily life with a lot of disruptive elements in her life. There is her eldest son who is probably in prison. There is his daughter who has the IQ of a snail. There is the lazy, useless teenage son who does nothing. There's the youngest, pre-adolescent son. There is the beautiful daughter who seems to have a good head on her shoulders. This mother works, and she also takes care of an old lady. It's a busy life!

In the middle of all this, there is this woman mother who has an extraordinary capacity of resilience, who manages all this (there is no father) in a permanent way. And who has almost no time for herself, which makes her the heroine of the film and even a superheroine. This is the French superhero movie!

The film is a success because the sequence of pathos avoids heaviness. The film always remains light, and finally this lady knows how to be positive and always goes forward and always finds motivations for an aftermath and continue, which makes her a great character.

A beautiful film, simple and dense, concise, which goes to the essential in the drama, but which always keeps a positive dimension.

Nora is a good person, the more people understand what life is all about the more they appreciate her. And she is a helping hand and the emotional support for so many people around her. However, her own children take advantage of her kindness and behave in a very immature way most of the time.

If you ask me, this French drama about a lower-class community, who find it really hard to make ends meet, questions Nora's being "a good mother".

Why does she put herself at risk and get drugs for her son who's in jail and then tell him "this was the last time"? Why does she tolerate her youngest son in his early 20s being a couch potato, the one who does absolutely nothing and behaves like he is ten? Or am I too much of a teacher?

One of her children tells her: Stay strong, we need you that way. And we know she will but is that the right choice?