******SPOILERS******* Told are a few weeks in the life of an anthropology student named Claire, who is preparing for an examination. Claire's surrounded by a miserable bunch of people. But above all, she suffers from migraine and desperately she goes to see a new doctor. The name is Dr. Fish, thinking all medication for poison, except "Dr. Fish's Elexier'. Claire has to inhale it and everything shall be better. But nothing turns better. Examination is ahead, so after all Claire take shelter in a hospital. In her room in the hospital stay two other women. A younger one, Odette, is counting lovers instead of sheep, while she goes to sleep and the older one is Eleonore. Eleonore is quite senile already and there is a rumor, that she had rescued a baby out of an incubator, who's surprisingly feeling very well. Someday Claire, who balks approximations of Eleonore all the time, succumbs her strange kind of charm. She is accepting the old lady, encourage her silly rubbish and receives the magic of life. Happily she packs her suitcase and walks to the exit, where the horrible staff of her past is waiting: the parents, the lover, the little sister. Without further ado she escapes to her own life
Review of La chambre des magiciennes
