[2][3] Marie Gillain was nominated for the Magritte Award for Best Actress for her role.

The screenplay was adapted loosely from the 2009 French non-fiction book Other Lives But Mine.

[4] In Lyon, Claire (Marie Gillain) is a young magistrate confronted with people in debt, in particular with a young woman, Céline (Amandine Dewasmes), whom she tries to help.

During a hospital examination, Claire learns that she has an incurable brain tumor (glioblastoma) and that she has little time to live.

At the same time, she meets Stéphane (Vincent Lindon), a more experienced colleague, and together they seek a legal loophole against the credit agencies.