Married to Henri (Benjamin Biolay), a famous conductor, mother of a six-year-old boy and director of a library, Hélène (Karin Viard) enjoys a privileged existence in Vienna, at the heart of a small circle of French expatriates working in the Austrian capital. Fine dining, house staff, beauty treatments and gossip (full of backstabbing and of a disdain for the lower classes) with the girlfriends, themselves parents of the other children from the French school (in particular Clémence, brilliantly played by Pascale Arbillot), are part of her everyday life. But a suspicion about her husband's potential adultery makes Hélène fall into an increasingly out of control spiral. Hurt and determined to make the school teacher Tina Brunner (Laetitia Dosch) that her husband is infatuated with pay, all the while preserving the social appearances of her marriage, she begins a double game that will soon turn against her, as a young Austrian man Jonas Karez (Lucas Englander) she meets by chance comes to seriously complicate the situation…
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