Alice, a recently widowed director, is alone on her grief after her daughter leaves home. Alice clings to the only structure she has, a fragile foundation at risk of collapsing: an essay film project, about first loves, dependent on funding. Suddenly we enter in another dimension, another place and without prior notice we are in the film conceived by the director.
Forty years later six ex-fighters, that had been together in the War in Africa, keep meeting. They know that, during those meetings, talking about the War is therapy to exorcize nightmares and ghosts. What keeps them alive is what destroyed them: Memories. Life has never been the same. They had twenty two years old when they met at the War. Time has stopped there. Today, they only exist when they are together.
Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her mother has left behind, and the prospect of a marriage that she does not really want, Elisa sets out to discover the truth. But will she recognize it when she finds it?
