At the onset of the film, we`re introduced to the story`s narrator, Paloma (Gallance Le Guillermic), a highly intelligent, rather morbid 11-year old girl, who has made the resolution to literally kill herself on her next birthday, rather than suffer the ordeal of life`s ennui. However, the titular hedgehog of the film is not its petite narrator – who documents the life of the dysfunctional adults around her with her father`s video camera – but the physically unlovely building janitor, RenÃ