When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.

Claudia is an unlucky and fatalistic young woman. During an esoteric event in a bookstore, a disturbing apparition in an aura photo will turn her day and her friend Antonia’s upside down.