Jacques Audiard

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others ...

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.