[1][2] Starring Virginie Efira, Niels Schneider and Jehnny Beth, the film chronicles the life of office worker Rachel as she falls in love with the wealthy Philippe, gives birth to their daughter Chantal, and raises Chantal as a single mother while maintaining a complicated relationship with Philippe.

In the late 1950s in Châteauroux, France, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe Arnold, a brilliant young man born to a rich bourgeois family.

When Philippe announces during a visit that he will marry a younger woman from a wealthy German family and they are having a child, she is devastated and expels him from the house.

Franck informs Rachel confidentially that Chantal should not see her father, because he has learned that Philippe has been sodomising her for a long time.

Mother and daughter finally reconcile and discuss the sexual abuse, humiliation, shame, and Philippe's appalling and controlling behaviour which they both suffered over decades.