The literary references that abound in thedebut The French filmmaker Laura Piani's works may be misleading, but one quickly senses an influence that goes beyond Jane Austen's novels: the romantic comedies of Nora Ephron. The opening scene, in which a romantic, literary-wounded bookseller played by Camille Rutherford performs a dance as clumsy as it is charming among the crowded shelves of the bookstore where she works, allows the protagonist to connect with the characteristic female archetype that, in Ephron's films, was embodied by Meg Ryan: young women who fit in with the times they live in.