Arlet returns home, after being away for four months, to celebrate her twentieth birthday. This reencounter with her past, and with her family, turns the weekend of celebration into a process of coming to terms with a disease that has been haunting them for years.

An unemployed executive is forced to sell his apartment. When he discovers that he still has the keys, he becomes obsessed with the family that now lives there and decides to recover the life he has lost, at any price.