The nearly 17-year-old Prudence Friedman (Léa Seydoux) is struggling to cope with her mother's death and her father, similarly upset, has now been in Canada much longer than the 48 hours it should've taken to settle his client's inheritance.

Over the phone, Prudence keeps up the pretence that she and her sister are living together in the family apartment but, in reality, Frédérique has moved out, unable to handle the painful memories of their mother's death there.

Marilyne enjoys having the run of the apartment, eating the food, messing with the Friedman parents' possessions and putting her feet, in their worn red heels, all over the furniture.

The pair's plans to go to the Rungis are ruined when Frédérique shows up to take Prudence to a dinner with their Jewish extended family, the Cohens.

Throughout dinner, Prudence remains quietly agitated, listening distractedly as her effeminate cousin Daniel argues with his devout father, Michel.

Prudence, wearing her mother's perfume and the red heels she borrowed from Marilyne, flirts and makes out with Reynald and she goes for a night-time bike ride with him and his two friends, Gerard and Franck.

Prudence finds an angry Frédérique waiting for her when she returns home but the two, rather than arguing, end up bonding over the loss of their mother.

Upset, Prudence sees one of Reynald's gang, Franck, being measured for a suit and gets the idea to go visit him at his workplace later under the pretence of returning his scarf.

Returning to reality, she puts in her mother's hearing aid and stands on the balcony, crying as sirens sound in the distance and the sun comes out from behind the clouds.