桑德拉（桑德拉·惠勒 Sandra Hüller 饰）、萨穆埃尔（塞缪尔·泰斯 Samuel Theis 饰）以及他们视力有障碍的儿子丹尼尔（米洛·马查多·格拉纳 Milo Machado Graner 饰）在偏远山区生活了一年。一天，萨穆埃尔在房子外面被发现死亡，警方立即展开了涉嫌命案的调查。在不确定的情况下，桑德拉被控：这是自杀还是谋杀？一年后，丹尼尔参加了母亲的审判，这也是对他父母关系的真正剖析。

The former star of a short-lived television sitcom, Fabien, drinks too much to remember everything he does and not much surprises him anymore. When his path crosses Yoni’s, he is not surprised to discover, in the wake of this young, tearful, military man, the head of yet another young man, beautiful like a dream, a memory, a reproach.