In the wake of her father's death, twenty-one-year-old Elise leaves her boyfriend, mother, and hometown of Niagara Falls to move to Paris. She's earned a place at an elite physical theatre school with a focus on clown. Not "clown-clown," but the pursuit of an inner child. At Chevalier, they don't follow scripts--they follow their souls. Left behind, Elise's mother, Catherine, is unravelling. She longs for the creative life she lost when she became pregnant, and in the quiet of the empty house, she becomes haunted by regret, and a secret she never told her daughter. When Elise disappears into Paris, Catherine follows. But Elise, awakening to her own creative power, feels ambushed by her mother's arrival. As Paris works its spell on them both, old wounds surface and resentments ignite. Can Elise hear her mother without losing herself? Can Catherine face the real reason she followed her daughter to Paris, or is she there--as Elise believes--to swallow her daughter whole?
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