Paris, 2025. A prestigious fashion house receives an important commission – to create the wedding dress for a British royal princess. Beauty, secrecy and power collide in this cinematic thriller – the story of the creation of a dress and the secret that ties it together.

From a Parisian?haute couture?fashion house to an embroidery workshop in Mumbai, to a lace atelier in Alençon, invisible hands labour in silence, stitching threads of ambition, sacrifice and survival. All for a dress that will spend mere minutes in the spotlight.

Renowned French director and filmmaker Caroline Guiela Nguyen pulls back the velvet curtain on the world of haute couture in LACRIMA. This is theatre as sharp as a needle – dazzling in its spectacle, unflinching in its humanity, unforgettable in its emotional impact. Following five-star, sell-out seasons across Europe, this extraordinary production now premieres in Australia.

LACRIMA unfolds like a cinematic thriller. With its shifting plots and intersecting characters, it has the grip of a Netflix binge – layered, suspenseful and impossible to stop watching.

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