Le Combat d'Alice (2024)
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Nicolas Gob, Lucy Loste Berset, Carole Bianic, Luce Mouchel
After bonding with a calf destined for slaughter, a suspended teenager joins young activists in a risky effort to free him.
The story
After being suspended from high school for fighting a girl who insulted her late mother, young Alice is sent by her father, Joscelin, to stay with her grandparents, market gardeners living near Lyon. On a bike ride, she encounters a cow and her calf and becomes deeply attached to them, naming them Doucette and Vidocq. Her affection turns to alarm when she discovers that Vidocq is destined for the slaughterhouse. Alice meets Lola, a vegan activist, and then Mattéo and Magda, anti-speciesist activists. Together, the four decide to try to free the calf after he is transferred to a livestock assembly center.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Young Alice is suspended from high school after getting into a fight with a girl who insulted her mother, who died two years earlier. Her father, Joscelin, sends her to the countryside to stay with her grandparents, market gardeners settled near Lyon. During a bike ride, Alice spots a cow and her calf in a meadow and grows so attached to them that she gives them names: Doucette and Vidocq. But she is shocked when she realizes the calf is destined for the slaughterhouse. She meets Lola, a vegan activist, and then Mattéo and Magda, anti-speciesist activists. The four young people decide to break into the livestock assembly center where Vidocq has been transferred in order to free him, but the operation goes wrong and a man ends up in a coma.
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