It’s October 1918 and war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife Jeanne, and the young daughter he hasn’t seen grown up. He is not coming back from the front line, but from the department for facial injuries at Val-de-Grâce military hospital where he has spent the last two years.

For Jeanne who has struggled to endure his absence and the hardships of wartime, her husband’s return marks the beginning of a new battle. With the promise of peace now in sight, the family must try to stich together a new life from the tatters of what they once had.

After the stress and solitude of waiting for her husband to return from WWI, a Parisian flower-seller has to learn to live with him and their daughter. This means learning to live with a man who is no longer the same – physically or psychologically: his face has been horribly disfigured, and he refuses to speak or to be touched; yet she still loves and desires him.