When the eccentric unsuccessful artist, Hanah Giurgiu, re-emerges after one of her countless extended absences in the life of her pre-pubescent daughter, Violetta, she comes with a strange, yet attractive proposition: Hanah needs her own girl to pose for her in ways that would later take by surprise the Parisian art world of the 1970s. However, as the obsessively self-absorbed parent keeps blurring the boundaries between art and eroticism, morality and depravity, the situation is bound to get out of hand, robbing Violetta of her innocence, little by little.
—Nick Riganas