A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Juliette Fontaine (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) was in prison for fifteen years. Confronted with the unexpected goodness of her younger sister Léa (Elsa Zylberstein), who makes Juliette a part of her family, very slowly breaks up Juliette's ice and bitterness and she carefully opens up.

After fifteen years in prison for murdering her son Pierre, former medical doctor Juliette Fontaine (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) travels to Lorraine to live on probation with her younger sister Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and her family. The bitter, introspective, and reclusive Juliette has spent her sentence without any visitors and completely forgotten by her family, and now she has problems interacting with her brother-in-law Luc (Serge Hazanavicius) and her nieces. She has to visit every other week her probation officer Captaine Fauré (Frédéric Pierrot) and seeks a job to rebuild her life. As days go by, Juliette gets closer to the family of her sister and befriends Luc and Léa's friends, specially Lea's colleague Michel (Laurent Grévill). She slowly changes her behavior until the day Léa discovers the truth about the death of Pierre.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil