Seeing nothing but futility, she has decided to document the last six months of her existence and commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. She has no one to confide in and feels increasingly alien to the people around her. At twelve, she sees her family’s shortcomings and fears being sealed in the fish-bowl of modern adult life. Paloma Joss is the world weary daughter of an upper class yet provincial family. It just takes the right people to follow them. One of the few things she does allow herself is a garden with beautiful camellias, which can be passed off as part of her job. She loves and appreciates beauty and is particularly fond of Japanese culture. She has a taste for cultured things: art, music, film and philosophy. Her secret? Renée loves to read and think about subjects way above her station. Due to a traumatic event that occurred in her family when she was a child, she lives in mortal fear that someone will see through the chinks in her armor, that someone will see beyond the hedgehog spines that protect her soft and vulnerable core. It is a terrible weight on her conscience and a deep embarrassment. They would never guess the secret that she guards every waking minute. To the upper class people who live in her elegant Parisian apartment building, Renée Michel is a simple concierge. Perhaps our authenticity is actually what the world needs. We often hide our true selves from people around us.
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