A Better Life

Synopsis

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.

Cast

Guillaume Canet

Yann

Leïla Bekhti

Nadia

Slimane Khettabi

Slimane

Abraham Belaga

Le marchand de sommeil

Nicolas Abraham

L'entrepreneur

François Favrat

Le banquier

Brigitte Sy

La femme bénévole surendettement