Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

Sandrine Bonnaire
as Mona Bergeron

Macha Méril
as Mme Landier

Yolande Moreau
as Yolande

Stéphane Freiss
as Jean-Pierre

Setti Ramdane
as The Moroccan Who Discovers Mona

Yahiaoui Assouna
as Assoun

Marthe Jarnias
as Old Aunt Lydie

Francis Balchère
as Gendarmerie

Jean-Louis Perletti
as Gendarmerie

Urbain Causse
as Farmer Interviewed
CinemaSerf
Sandrine Bonnaire delivers really quite well in this observational drama of a young, rootless, girl who roams the countryside living from hand to mouth. Now we start with "Mona" dead in a ditch - so there's little jeopardy, but that also serves a useful frame of reference to this depiction of her la...