Mini-series on Arte: “Nismet” followed by grace

Nismet, 16, lives with a fragile mother and an abusive and violent stepfather. One evening, she runs away and never returns to the family home. We will then follow her journey step by step: she first goes from shelter to shelter, then resumes her studies, passes her baccalaureate, discovers a job (care assistant in a nursing home), has her own place, starts stripping on the side to make ends meet and pay her mother's lawyer fees - and also to settle some scores with men. All spread over only a few years, but so concentrated in changes and discoveries that Nismet quickly takes on the air of a coming-of-age story, in the classic sense, and of emancipation - first literally, since the young girl makes an administrative request for early emancipation. The four episodes prove difficult to put down without, however, resorting to narrative tricks visible to the naked eye.

As is often the case with Philippe Faucon ( Fatima , the Harkis ...), what is at stake is more hidden, more mysterious. We find in Nismet this mixture of simplicity and truth which drives his story to restore only a certain purity, but which nevertheless does not prohibit itself (bi