After wandering through the Parisian Bois de Vincennes (code: The Woods Dreams are Made of), Simon and her non-invasive camera enter a high school in the Parisian suburbs Ivry, listening in on conversations among its students. Instead of communicating through Facebook and other social networks, they open up to each other through intimate conversations. They talk about their (devastated) families, their schizophrenic mothers, absent fathers, first loves and plans for the future. Simon becomes something like their surrogate mother, providing them what their parents cannot in their own homes – namely, she listens and encourages them. The students are trying to articulate their emotions in a completely eloquent and relaxed way, revealing their insecurities, fears, desires and sorrows. This is what makes Simon’s procédé so sensitive and lucid. By sharing their problems with their peers, students start to understand they are not alone. Even when they finish a life story with tears in their eyes from time to time, with a simple conclusion: “Life is hard, isn’t it?”