Esther Hoffenberg invites us to discover Violette Leduc (1907-1972), an intense and passionate writer, supported throughout her life by Simone de Beauvoir. Her writings on female pleasure shaped the history of literature. The director of the documentary returns to where the author lived and worked in Paris and the small Provencal village of Faucon, and she invites some passionate readers, including several of her closest friends, to join her. Catherine Viollet, Cécile Vargaftig, Carlo Jansiti, Anaïs, Alison, Daniel, Serge and Claude Lanzmann draw a portrait of a woman ahead of her time, who didn't fear the scandal to evoke her bastard status, her abortion or her lesbian loves, and that censorship never quite managed to silence. De Beauvoir, whom Leduc was in love with, secretly awarded her a pension for 15 years through her publisher, until her own successful following. The film is also a great opportunity to discover one of the few film footage on Violette Leduc in existence, to hear her unique voice and to hear fragments of her novels, with such evocative titles as Ravages [Havoc] Thérèse et Isabelle or L'affamée [The Hungry], read in a simple and sensitive fashion by Dominique Reymond.