In Safe Hands

Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.

Cast

Sandrine Kiberlain

as Karine

Gilles Lellouche

as Jean

Élodie Bouchez

as Alice

Olivia Côte

as Lydie

Clotilde Mollet

as Mathilde

Jean-François Stévenin

as Alice's Father

Bruno Podalydès

as Karine's Ex-Husband

Miou-Miou

as Irène

Leïla Muse

as Clara

Stéfi Celma

as Élodie, a childcare assistant

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