Sylvie is a single mother with two children to look after whose youngest, Sofiane, is quite problematic. Their life is chaotic and messy, and Sylvie, although affectionate and involved, is also a little rough in her household management. One day, while her mother is at work trying to support the family, Sofiane gets hurt and ends up in hospital. Social services take him away from home to send him to an institution, and Sylvie has no choice but to wage a battle in an attempt to get her son back home.
Nothing to loose it is the first fiction work of the young director Delphine Deloget who comes from reality cinema and does not want to derogate from that reality, even in telling a story that she has carefully scripted herself. Everything happens before our eyes with an immediacy and urgency that matches that of Sylvie, played by an excellent Virginie Efira.
We are faced with an immersive film set in a family context but also in a well-defined socioeconomic and geographical reality. And it pushes us to think without prejudice about the traps we all risk falling into, partly because of ourselves, partly because of the rigidity of the institutions that surround us.
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