Police cadet Fred Leprince is found dead inside the police academy. His sister Émilie, also a cadet there, doesn't believe the suicide theory.

An online romance with a foreigner takes a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer to an unknown land. Despite everyone saying it is a romance scam, she wants to prove that her love indeed exists.

On this summer day in 1977, Léon and Eugénie are preparing to welcome their entire family into their small house. It's their grandson Stéphane's birthday, but it's mostly a pretext to gather with the patriarch, weakened by illness. But what appears to be a routine family reunion will highlight everyone's tensions and resentment. It reaches a point of no return.

After World War II, the orderly life of a deputy secretary of state for family affairs, who had succeeded in closing brothels and increasing penalties for abortion offenses, is turned upside down when he learns on the same day that his wife is expecting a child and that his son has impregnated his secretary! This is only the beginning of a series of unexpected events that will shake up the foundations of this bourgeois family...