Plot

Adapted from the novel by Hannelore Cayre "La Daronne" / The Godmother, which was the winner of the Grand Prize for detective literature (French) in 2017. Patience Portefeux is a French-Arabic police translator who specialises in phone tapings for the anti-narcotics unit. One day, while listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers that one of them is the son of a devoted nurse who takes care of her mother. She decides to protect him and finds herself in the middle of a drug network. After receiving a huge load of hash, she uses her insider knowledge and police resources to build her own drug trafficking network and earns the name Mama Weed.

Cast

Isabelle Huppert

Patience Portefeux

Rachid Guellaz

Scotch

Hippolyte Girardot

Philippe

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