Above the vibrant opening credits of 15 Loves an actual sound bite can be heard: that of the announcement, by the President of the French National Assembly, of the result of the vote on same-sex marriage, approved in April 2013. Alice Douard's powerful opera prima therefore begins with a historic event (the film takes place in 2014) to portray with sensitivity and empathy an event that belongs to the intimate sphere: the earthquake that a young lesbian couple, formed by Céline (Ella Rumpf, on the rise to stardom) and Nadia (Monia Chokri, a regular in Xavier Dolan's cinema), experiences when deciding to start a family, and the discriminatory legal and bureaucratic labyrinth this entails.