Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

In early 1960s, Loan and her Vietnamese-born French husband Pierre relocates to Auvergne as part of a resettlement programme for French nationals from the now-fallen Indochina. Loan believes the situation is temporary, and day by day awaits the return to her homeland.

Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.