Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.

Sibylle is a divorced mother who can no longer stand by and watch her son sink into a meaningless and violent existence, so she decides to take Samuel on a long journey through Kyrgyzstan.

An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.