LACRIMA

On the eve of her wedding, a princess of the English crown orders a dress from the prestigious French haute couture house Béliana. For several months, some thirty men and women, subject to strict confidentiality clauses, worked in the Paris workshop, but also in Alençon for the lacemaking and Mumbaï in India for the embroidery. Leaning over the extraordinary work, the bodies are under pressure and the best-kept secrets resurface. Caroline Guiela Nguyen tells the story of these shadowy workers, these seamstresses, pattern-makers and embroiderers with their exceptional skills, as their lives are about to be turned upside down.