Élisa is a 1995 French drama film directed by Jean Becker and starring Vanessa Paradis, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Firmine Richard and Florence Thomassin.

Marie is a teenage girl living a life of crime with her friends on the streets of Paris.

Her mother, Élisa, suffering from poverty and abandoned by her husband and estranged from her parents, had tried to kill her when she was very young and later committed suicide.

After discovering a love letter her father had written to her mother, Marie forgives him.

The song tells about the love of a man in his forties for a girl in her twenties, alluding to Marie and her father Jacques.