A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airplane forces him to take stock of his life.
Sara De Roose, a business economics graduate, passed with honours at the university but has trouble finding a job—until she comes across an assistant job in a Belgian fashion company, called "Présence".
