Lena, 50, comes from Brittany. She teaches in Paris, has an adult son, and for the past two years has been in a sort of emotional coma brought on by the death of her mother and the end of a relationship. Three totally different, but actually related encounters will gradually bring her back to life. The first is a sensual and emotional reawakening thanks to a younger man whom she must leave so as not to let disgust ruin everything. The second encounter – a nocturnal phone call, really – will lead to making peace and, who knows, perhaps even a possible future with the father of her son, a man she loved when she was only 20 years old. The third and most important one – which is made possible by the first two and which will reconcile Lena with existence – is her encounter with Maria, a woman dying of brain cancer who Lena unwittingly reconciled with her father three years earlier, when she published an autobiographical novel. An intense, quiet and essential encounter.