Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) is not having a good year. A tough-cookie philosophy professor who’s beginning to question her faith in the life of the mind, she finds out that her self-penned textbook is not getting reprinted, her husband (André Marcon) is filing for divorce, and her elderly mother (Edith Scob) is slipping further into dementia. Still, thanks to a friendship with a young, gifted student (Roman Kolinka) and a visit with his bohemian comrades, she starts to imagine the possibility of a more sensuous lifestyle.
