« As he prepares to defend a killer, Louis discovers that his wife Billie is fighting, and losing, a battle of her own against cancer. At the same time, their daughters Manon and Fleur face the first big tests of their young lives. Billie's nurse alice feels stifled by her husband and son, and her best friend Marie clings to dreams of a baby. Skeletons in the family closet prevent Louis's brother Paul from moving on, and fear of failure haunts Marie's husband Samuel. In Paris, lives and destinies collide, entwine and entangle, but out of the fabulous whirl of big city life comes a message of love and hope. For her feature debut, writer-director Karine Silla has assembled a fine cast of awardwinning stars, including Valeria Golino (Frida, 36, respiro), Cécile de France (Hereafter, mesrine, The Singer, High Tension), Elsa Zylberstein (i've Loved You So Long), Vincent Perez (The Crow), Jalil lespert (Tell No One), Nicolas Giraud (The extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec), with cameo appearances by gérard depardieu and Jimmy Jean-louis. Butterfly Kiss is a beautifully observed, romantic yet resolutely realistic movie that captures the trials, tribulations and triumphs of six characters whose destinies interconnect »