Manuel passes 18 months at Buchenwald before his return to Paris. He wonders even before his arrival who will have the patience and passion to listen to his narrative. He chooses silence.

When she is eighteen years old, Carolina shifts out of the apartment of the uncle who raised her. The camera follows her chaotic life over a six-year period, from the welfare office to the psychiatric clinic to a hotel room. Through chance encounters or the enlightenment provided by her reunion with a brother she loved too much, will Carolina find a place for herself in a society not exactly shaped to accommodate her?