Elsa is a little girl of 9 years of age who hears and speaks, yet, her parents are deaf and do not speak. Her father is a sign language professor and her mother is a painting artist. Elsa expresses herself in French sign language and in spoken French just like her little brother of seven, Réno. At home, the children communicate in sign language even though television, internet and friends bring in the French. At school and with neighbors they use spoken language. She often has to translate for others. And, there are those who are kind and those who are not and reject and even persecute them. How does she go about evolving in a healthy and balanced way without mishap? The film tells the story of this little girl wthin her family and social life. In the midst of her life is this constant duality between the hearing and the deaf. One day, she meets a movie director.

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