THE YANKEE AU PAIR

Fourteen -year -old Mathilde sees no reason why her mother Eleonore needs to hire a new au pair girl to look after her. But her mother insists and Mathilde finds herself stuck wih Elsie, Black and American…and actually very nice! With Elsie, Mathilde discovers a world and culture her bourgeois upbringing had not exposed her to. Eleonore soon starts to feel that Elsie is having a bad influence on her daughter and uses the first minor incident as an excuse to fire her. Upset by Elsie’s sudden departure, Mathilde decides to go looking for her…