David is an occupational therapist. He's been practicising for a short while in a rich Swiss clinic. One morning, one of his colleagues is unable to make an appointment in town with a patient, Madame Hansen-Bergmann and David goes instead.
Initially prudent and respectful of medical protocol, David proves to be a real stickler for the regulations. But as he spends more time with his patient, his curosity grows: so much provocativeness and insolence, mixed with such sudden and inexplicable waves of despair and chagrin can only hide a major traumatic episode. Will they get to the bottom of it....