A Better Life

A Better Life

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A Better Life

SBS VICELAND | August 14, 2017

Languages

Personal and social capability

Media arts

Business and economics

Classification: Mature

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of a nine-year-old boy, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves pushed into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them both.

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Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of a nine-year-old boy, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves pushed into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them both.

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