L'Icône

Dinner is ready; Soso should be on her way to the table. But in her room—her own little kingdom—this teenager wishes to tell her story. Free of taboos, she shares about her overbearing mother, her absent father, and their financial struggles. But there are also her first romantic feelings for her “best friend” Célia, the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Satan, and her favorite stars on MTV Base. She dreams of being an actress one moment, a contestant on a talent show the next, and a gymnast the next. L'icône is the radical perspective of a suburban teenager on her social conditioning and her near-obsessive ambitions.