Coming from a modest background, Hélène left the Vosges a long time ago. Today, she is in her forties. A brutal burnout forces her to leave Paris and return to where she grew up, between Nancy and Epinal. She settles there with her family, finds a good job, a better quality of life, in short…
One evening, in the parking lot of a chain restaurant, she notices a familiar face: Christophe Marchal, the handsome hockey player from their high school years. Christophe, that distant object of desire, an affair Hélène never saw coming…
In their embraces, two Frances, two worlds now foreign to one another, dream of loving each other. Will this idyll, this island of theirs, truly be possible?