The lives of Christophe and Irène are brutally upended when their
eight-year-old son Hugo mysteriously disappears at school one afternoon.
Days pass, then weeks, but the police investigations leads nowhere.
The strain on the couple's relationship becomes too much to bear and they
are driven apart by grief. Christopher moves to Mexico, where he survives
by doing odd jobs. Irène remains in Montréal and devotes
herself to her career as a choral singer. Ten years have elapsed before
the police contact Irène with the news that they have found Hugo -
or rather his dead body. Unable to deal with this by herself, Irène
is forced to get in touch with Christophe and ask him to come back to her.
Now that they are united in a grief that dare show itself, their former feelings
for one another begin to reassert themselves...
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