A portrayal of the life of Niki de Saint Phalle, from her exile from the United States to France in the early 1950s to her meeting with writer Harry Mathews and her early modeling roles and fees. She soon confronts a past she cannot forget. Céline Sallette shines a light on a major figure of Western feminism in her debut film, showcasing Charlotte Le Bon in a dazzling performance full of energy and vibrant costumes. Through the lens of a biography, the filmmaker delivers a poignant exploration of trauma, in total contradiction to Proust and his madeleine of childhood. It's a manifesto on art as a tool for salvation and redemption, with sequences of electroshock therapy in psychiatry echoing the violence of those in Clint Eastwood's The Exchange.