[3] The film premiered at the 2022 L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival where it won the Prix d'intérpretation féminine (best female actor award), and it was released in theatres in France on 23 March 2022.
[5][6] Cathy Marie, leaves her position as chef at a fancy restaurant, takes a position at the canteen of a shelter for immigrants, mostly African and South Asian youths likely to be deported at age 18.
She introduces use of brigade de cuisine in the shelter's kitchen.
The New York Times described it as a "feel-good drama set in a hostel for undocumented minors — with a kick of cooking-competition-show excitement" and called it "a white-savior story par excellence, though at least it's not difficult to swallow — the young people are lovely, and so is the food.
[8] Quadratin México summarizes: "In a subtle way, the director Louis-Julien Petit manages to intertwine two apparently incompatible worlds: immigration and gastronomy, to raise awareness about the importance and complexity of these problems in just 97 minutes.