Benoit Jacquot's 1996 film, La Fille seule, follows a day in the life of a young Parisian room service waitress who has just discovered she is pregnant The film recalls the Paris atmosphere and identity issues of one of Patrick Modiano’s Parisian stories in Des Inconnues (published after the film’s release). A New York Times review reports that the film "rekindles the verve of the new wave and gives it a cool, 90s spin." This paper explores the interplay of interior/exterior Parisian space in the construction of feminine identity. Filmic space becomes narrative place as the tracking camera moves through claustrophic work interiors and reinscribes them as open shots of Paris streets. The final sequence redefines the Jardin du Luxembourg as the problematic site of contemporary urban motherhood.