Clémence, a student at the Conservatory, asks Valérie Donzelli to follow her during the creation of her year-end performance, allowing the filmmaker, who had failed the entrance exam, to capture the prestigious school from within. Donzelli returns to the voice-over style borrowed from the French New Wave that she loves so much, lending a unique narrative to her films (La guerre est déclarée, Notre dame), in service of this documentary essay that uses the Conservatory as a backdrop to explore themes of youth, mourning, failure, rupture, and creation. It’s a generational film for theater actors known as "Millennials", and for the previous generations who watch them with kindness.