A powerful and moving film revealing the difficult and intense relationship between a mother (Isabelle Uppert) and her daughter (Melanie Laurent), Huppert plays Danielle, a middle-aged woman rebounding from the trauma of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Greta Scacchi co-stars as the psychiatrist assigned to guide Danielle. It becomes apparent that the source of Danielle's trauma lies in her dysfunctional, estranged relationship with her daughter - now a contented, healthy wife and mother with a husband and a small child of her own.
