An elegant woman presides over a banquet whose increasingly surreal nature reflects ideals and anxieties about modern motherhood.

Angie, a bigorexic bodybuilder at the end of her career, discovers an unusual growth on her back. During a consultation, the doctor tells her that she will have to break her lifestyle habits so as not to make her case worse. Angie takes a disturbing look at body obsession, exploring narcissism and insatiability.

In 1988, in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, an 11-years-old boy is worried for his grandmother's life. Worn out by illness, the old storyteller tries to convince her grandson that Death no longer exists. Her story will bring back to life the extraordinary people from the village in 1927 who, by using rocambolesque tricks, will eliminate Death that threatens them. From now on, Death will coincide with the birth of legends.