In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.

Zar Amir Ebrahimi
as Angine

Luàna Bajrami
as Malaise

Aurélie Boquien
as Petulante

Vicky Krieps
as Narrator (voice)

Nicolas Bouchaud
as Chagrin

Mitchell Jean
as Jeremeiad

Mustapha Abourachid
as Arnaque

Thibault De Lussy
as Tuyeaux

Lucile Jaillant
as Carie

Christophe Grundmann
as Voisin Grincheux
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Well it certainly wasn’t sponsored by Colgate. Indeed, that is probably just about as illegal in this French society as Semtex. Kissing isn’t even mentionable let alone do-able, and sales in garlic chewing gum are rocketing. Every morning before she enters her plush department store for work, “Malai...