Emma, a talented conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene, has a complicated relationship with her father and agent Patrick. She has to face up to her emotions and decide whether she wants to successfully combine her career with her love affair with Naëlle, a recently separated cellist and mother of a young son.

An elegant woman presides over a banquet whose increasingly surreal nature reflects ideals and anxieties about modern motherhood.

On a lonely Christmas night, Missy falls into a slope of overdrinking. That night, Buck, a mystical creature, stumbles its way into Missy’s apartment. Yearning for food, the passive monster finds itself trapped in the woman’s claws.