France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Anja isn't making any progress. Her thesis and her personal life are both coming to nothing; an existential crisis lurks behind her lack of motivation. When her family gathers for her grandmother's funeral in Holland, she escapes to the seaside. Walking along the beach, she experiences her loneliness more intensely than ever before: a journey toward self-discovery begins.