Ismaël Vuillard makes films. He is in
the middle of one about Ivan, an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother.
Along with Bloom, his master and father-in-law, Ismaël still mourns the death
of Carlotta, twenty years earlier. Yet he has started his life over again with
Sylvia. Sylvia is his light. Then Carlotta returns from the dead. Sylvia runs
away. Ismaël rejects Carlotta. Driven mad by these ordeals, he abandons the
shoot for his family home in Roubaix. There, he lives as a recluse, besieged by
his ghosts.