The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
Thomas Obled
/ Basile 'Baz' Vuillard - Ivan and Sylvia's son Clément Obled
/ Baptiste - Ivan and Sylvia's son Françoise Bertin
/ Rosaimée Vuillard - Abel's mother's girlfriend Samir Guesmi
/ Spatafora - the family friend at Roubaix Azize Kabouche
/ Doctor Zraïdi - the oncologist
Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.
Mathilde is nine. Her parents have separated and she lives alone with her mother - a fragile woman on the brink of madness - with whom she shares a unique love story.