And the Little Prince Said

A divorced Swiss couple must come to terms with their daughters lifethreatening illness He a scientist snatches his daughter from the examining table at the clinic and takes her away as if to kidnap her from the disease His exwife an actress takes to bed weeping uncontrollably when she learns of her daughters tumor The girls stepmother an AsianAmerican physician is clinical in her response outlining a treatment regimen of surgery chemotherapy and radiation It is left to the girl herself tenyearold Violette to be calm reassuring philosophical and even metaphysical as she faces death