[Introduction]
A woman loses her job and apartment, but strives to carry on with her life. It positively portrays serious themes with a blend of joyful humor and tasteful sophistication. The title is from a proverb, “Seven falls, eight rises.”
[Synopsis]
At night, Elsa cleans busses in a deserted depot, during the day she tiredly looks after the child of a young couple. Her attempt for finding a steady job is disastrous. One day Elsa is evicted from her apartment and begins a life of uncertainty. Her unemployed neighbor, Mathieu, offers his love from time to time, which she is not prepared to receive. But the temptation to leave everything behind leads her into the forest, where Mathieu has found refuge and set up his camp. For a time they live apart from civilization, but they both know that one day they will have to come back and confront the world, or leave it for good.
