Michael is American. Julie is French. They don't speak the same language, they don't understand each other. But when an elevator breaks down, language barriers and indifference tend to break with it...
Etel, a 9-year-old girl who lives in the Hassidic community in Paris, gets her period for the first time. Myriam, her mother, finally looks at her as if she were a woman. Etel is blessed, until she finds out that in her religion, women are considered impure when they have their period.
