In the spring of 1965, eighteen-year-old Anne meets the film director Robert Bresson. Convinced that she is ideal to play the part of Marie in his film, Au hasard Balthazar, Bresson approaches her grandfather, Francois Mauriac, for permission to employ the young actress. Throughout filming, Bresson plays an ambiguous role as both seducer and father figure. Anne, deeply affected by his magnetism, undergoes a creative and sexual awakening and by the end of the summer, the film completed, feels a future of possibilities open up before her. This beautiful novel introduces us to one of cinema's most gifted directors, and to his profound effect on the life of a young girl.