Sophia's life is turned upside down when she meets Sylvain. She comes from a wealthy family, while Sylvain comes from a family of manual workers. Sophia questions her own values after abandoning herself to her great romantic impulses.
Sisters Marianne and Christin travel to the Magdalen Islands, where they will spread their father's ashes and flee their personal problems, without realizing that they carry them with them, literally and figuratively.