Better Days

Suzanne, a widowed mother of three still grieving for her husband, has turned to alcohol to ease her pain, but then an accident on the way to school changes everything. Social services give Suzanne no choice: if she wants to keep custody of her kids, she must go into rehab.

The initial detox is brutal, but Suzanne starts to find strength in the people around her: the abrasive but endearing Alice, an orphan afraid of her origins; Diane, a washed-up actress whose daughter hates her; and Chantal who has lost everything and battles despair with wry humour. In charge of them is Denis, their sports coach and car workshop teacher, who has signed them up for a women’s car rally in Morocco. As bonds of friendship and solidarity grow between them, the women prepare for the race of a lifetime, a challenge that could ultimately bring back their self-respect and save them from themselves.