A young woman confronts her religious mother. A biker explores the night with a group of rebel dykes in Rio. A rapper in French Guiana comes to terms with her roots. Five young women reflect on life at a luxury spa in the French mountains.

Mauricette Bonnarien, a 27-year-old woman, works at the port of Dégrad des Cannes as a dockworker. The rest of the time, she performs slam poetry. Very self-conscious about her surname, given to her ancestor when slavery was abolished, she has begun the administrative process of changing her name. Only her mother knows about it. Now it's time to tell the rest of her family and friends.