The story of the Bobigny trial remains the heart of the narrative: a decisive moment for women's rights in France, recounted on screen in the very places where it was held.
She indicates that Marie-Claire came to see them one day at the courthouse. Marie-Claire's daughter is named Jennifer. Charlotte Gainsbourg believes she met Cécile de France.
This trial shakes the whole of France. It precedes by two years the adoption of the Veil law on voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
In November 1972, Marie-Claire, then 16 years old, is the victim of a rape. The young woman is then prosecuted for having had a clandestine abortion.
Today, the right to abortion is enshrined in the Constitution, so that a case of this kind can no longer happen again, according to the elements presented on air.