1984, Fontenay-sous-Bois. Cléo is 13 and dreams of becoming a modern jazz dancer. She takes private lessons with Cathy and Jean, a couple who fascinates her and prepares her for the entrance exam to a prestigious dance school. But these sessions also become a spiral of sexual abuse, of which Cléo is first a victim and then an accomplice, drawing other girls into it. Carrying the weight of her secret, she pursues her dream of becoming a dancer.
From Fontenay to Place Pigalle, from Michel Drucker’s television sets to the backstage corridors of a major Parisian revue and all the way to the present day, Chavirer spans forty years of Cléo’s life, seen through the eyes of those who cross her path.
