Was only broadcast over a year after shooting was completed.
The film received a 80,000 euro subsidy from the Charente department, where most of the filming took place.
Producer Dominique Besnehard spent three years developing the project after ending his career as a talent agent. It had been the novel his French baccalauréat exam was on and when he stumbled upon it in a book stall by the Seine, he saw it as a sign.