Thirty year old Sybille still lives with her parents in a boring suburb. She’s not a beauty, still a virgin and so shy that even in her bedroom, she first puts on her night dress before removing her underwear. On her way to work she reads cheap romantic novels. When one day she meets handsome Victor on the bus, it looks as if her romantic fantasies are about to come true. Against her expectations their feelings are mutual. In no time he moves in with her and her parents. Then his real nature becomes clear… —IMDb
Anne Villacèque was born on April 30, 1963 in Toulouse. She graduated from the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris), studied Philosophy at the University Paris X in Nanterre and film direction at the Fémis film school (Ecole nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son) in Paris. In 1993, she directed her first short film, Nos vacances. –Berlinale