This is a semi-autobiographical film directed by Eva Ionesco herself. It explores the toxic and exploitative relationship she had with her mother during the 1970s.

Irina Ionesco, a French-Romanian photographer, gained fame for her "baroque orientalist" and "gothic" style. She viewed her daughter as her ultimate muse, photographing Eva from the age of four.

: Eva’s image also appeared on a scandalous 1977 cover of Der Spiegel and in the Spanish edition of Penthouse . The Role of Irina Ionesco

: In December 2012, a Paris court ordered Irina to pay approximately €10,000 in damages and return the original negatives to Eva.

Following the publication and the release of films like The Tenant , Eva’s mother, photographer Irina Ionesco , lost legal custody of her daughter, who was then raised in foster care.