[2] Mathilda or "Matty" (Barbara Sarafian) is a bitter 41-year-old postal worker in Ghent, Belgium.

She finds herself drifting through life, waiting for her husband Werner (Johan Heldenbergh) to decide if he wants to leave his current 22-year-old lover Gail and return to Matty and their three kids.

[3] One day after shopping at the supermarket, Matty backs into a yellow highway tractor in the parking lot.

When Werner learns about Matty's affair with Johnny, he asks a friend at the police station to run a background check.

They find out that he did time for an incident wherein he brutally attacked his wife and put her in the hospital for two weeks.

One night at dinner, Matty's teenage daughter Vera asks Johnny if the charges are true and he shamefacedly says yes.

Disgusted, Vera leaves the table and Matty tries to break things off with Johnny, but he explains that he had had too much to drink that night and after his ex-wife admitted she had been having an affair for three months, he went into a rage.