Liv Maria

Her name is Liv Maria Christensen. A solitary child born on a Breton island, between a café owner mother and a Norwegian sailor father. Suddenly sent to Berlin at the age of 17, she falls in love with her English teacher. During a summer, she learns everything. The pleasure of the bodies, the intensity of the exchanges. But, barely out of adolescence, she has already lost all her bearings. Her parents die in an accident, she is an orphan. And maybe the summer teacher was just a mirage. So, Liv Maria invents for years a free existence in Latin America. Then, by the grace of a new love, she anchors herself in a peaceful family story in Ireland. Two sons are born. But Liv Maria remains an elusive woman, even for those close to her. How to stand there, in this life, with the memory of all those before? Julia Kerninon paints the dazzling portrait of a woman scarred to the core by an unmentionable secret. And explores with great accuracy the detours of the intimate, the games of appearance and truth.