Édène

"Social shame is a very effective whip, even if no one knows who's wielding it."

Édène, a young woman from a working-class background, falls in love with Rose, born into a cultural bourgeois family. In this social satire, "heiresses" and precariat workers meet in the laundry of a slaughterhouse, where Édène works for a living. At night, she writes, convinced that this is her vocation - despite fatigue, scorn and poverty. What legitimacy, then, could literature offer?
Where does this conviction come from that one can become a writer even when one's original social background seems to forbid it?