It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
April and the Extraordinary World is a 2015 animated alternate history film co-directed by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci, co-written by Ekinci and Benjamin Legrand, and starring Marion Cotillard. Set in a dystopian steampunk world based on the concepts and visuals of comic artist Jacques Tardi, the plot concerns a young scientist continuing her great grandfather's research and attempting to find her family, who have disappeared.