Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, nds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbora younger woman called Clmentine who has just moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective.

Paris, 1972. The same apartment in Belleville. Florence and Henry are renovating their kitchen. She is nishing her degree in psychology, dropping into feminist activities, and devotedly attending the groundbreaking, infamous seminars held by the renowned analyst Jacques Lacan. She is hoping to conceive their rst child, though Henry isnt sure hes ready for fatherhood.

Two couples, fty years apart, face the challenges of marriage, delity, and pregnancy. They inhabit this same small space in separate but similar timestimes charged with political upheaval and intellectual controversy.