Leo Cramps, 30, is illiterate. One day, having failed to read instructions, he is the victim of an accident at the factory where he is a worker. Immobilized, he meets his neighbor, a nurse and a single mother passionate about reading.

In order to find her future, a young woman must go back through her past.

On a beach, in summer, 12-year-old Abel is ashamed of his father's body, which is ravaged by cancer.