It's decided: their restaurant will be located in this old bar in the 20th arrondissement, remote, decrepit, and therefore perfect. But no bank believes in them—too young, too female, not profitable enough. Johanna hesitates: should she stay at the Régent and accept the position of sous-chef, or follow her dream of independence? Amandine wants to escape this place of suffering, even if it means begging her father—in vain. Vivian is barely surviving on her writing. So, on a whim, Amandine mortgages her apartment. Without telling Johanna.
