The writer Aurélien is in hospital and learns that his parents have died in a car accident. The loner reluctantly travels to Brittany to arrange the sale of his parents' house. He can't help the memories that the small town evokes in him. Is Aurélien really the black sheep of the family? On the coast in Saint-Lunaire, Mado, an old family friend, upsets his certainties. His former best friend Hervé, a real estate agent in charge of selling the house, surprises him with a discovery.

Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.