Two men meet around a camera: the old man recounts a lost love to the young director. To remember this love, the old man reads his texts, one of which alludes to a place that holds special memories: Ostend. The director then summons a third man and in turn creates the pictures of a lost love, in a shift towards fiction.

In the 90’s, a ten-years-old happy young girl is tied to a melancholy young boy. While Lise is playing, Jacques stays alone, he does not want to grow up. Many years after, Lise bury her life as a young girl.