The story, based on the 1998 novel À ton image by Louise L. Lambrichs, is about a couple whose desire for a child leads them onto dangerous ground.

[1] Haunted by painful memories and a terrible feeling of guilt a sterile young woman named Mathilde (played by Nastassja Kinski) uses extreme cloning methods to give birth to Manon (Audrey DeWilder), and is comforted by her obstetrician husband Thomas (Christopher Lambert).

Manon starts off as a very normal child but then suffers from intense nightmares, that we later uncover to be her mother's memories.

Manon becomes determined to destroy her mother's life, even showing affection for Mathilde's husband Thomas.

Gradually, the relation between them evolves in an odd manner as Manon takes over her mother's role in the family.