Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. It's an opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances.
Thomas
Nika, de poco más de veinte años, deja Ucrania para seguir a su novio Vlad, un soldado recién llegado con base en un campamento militar en Córcega. Nika entonces conoce a Celine, esposa del Comandante Maxime, quien la guiará a través del codificado mundo de los esposos de las mujeres que se quedan. Mientras Vlad se obsesiona con la vida del legionario, Nika y Céline se ven afectadas por la distancia y el sacrificio de lo que esperaban fuera una vida familiar tradicional.
Stéphane
Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the learned petit-bourgeois from Bastia, shift from delinquency to political radicalization and then to clandestinity, comes back to his mind.
