Chahine is going to be a father for the first time. He then realizes that his history and that of his parents escapes him. He becomes determined to get some answers.

Simone Signoret and Yves Montand were the most famous couple of their time. Haunted by her husband’s affair with Marilyn Monroe and bruised by all those that followed, Signoret always refused the role of victim. What they knew was that they would never leave each other.