A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".

An adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's novel "Les illusions perdues".

At 70, Shauna, thinks that most of her life is behind her, when she finds Pierre, this married man and father of a family of twenty-five years her junior, whom she had met and who already had him. moved fifteen years earlier. Equally upset by this reunion, Pierre and Shauna begin an affair. From there to projecting into a common future ...

The film tells the story of three people for a year: a son (Magimel) diagnosed with cancer, a mother (Deneuve) suffering from helplessness and a doctor (Cécile de France) to do her job: One year and four seasons for these three characters to deal with the disease, to tame it, and to understand what it means to die while alive.