Justine Assaf

When her mother, her friends and her gynecologist ask her about her desire to have a child, Charlotte prefers to drown the fish. When Emily, a future client, confides in her about her infertility problems, Charlotte claims without thinking that she can't procreate either.

In a recording studio, five mothers read the testimonies of other anonymous mothers and open up, laying bare their regret about motherhood. On an imagined island, these five mothers are locked away in an open-air prison. They are under surveillance and forced into hard labor.

Yuko is not always sure how to listen to her body and her desires. A friendship emerges from this stationary drifting.

Louise’s life is splintering. At work they’ve been shunting her aside. And she’s separating from her boyfriend, who works for the same company. When she learns that her contract will not be renewed, she starts witnessing bizarre attacks.

How to announce the death to a child? How to say the unspeakable? Philippe continues the daily life and makes Maxime believe that his mother is still in the hospital. But his son feels that something happened.