A philosophy teacher in a Parisian secondary school, Nathalie loves her job, convinced she teaches students to think for themselves. Married to a teacher who is also an intellectual, and the mother of two grown children, she sees her life turned upside down when her husband leaves her for another woman and her mother dies. Suddenly single and free, she tries to find a balance in her new life with the help of a former student with libertarian ideas.

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Isabelle Huppert is one of those actors whose presence overwhelms the screen, transforming her movies into mirrors – of her career and her body of work. As in In Another Country, La Ritournelle, Asphalt and Valley of Love, Huppert is the heart, the light, and even the subject of this movie by Mia Hansen-Love (Tout est pardonné and Goodbye First Love). The story (too banal, too artificial, too cold) is less important than the power of Huppert, who shines in every situation and with every dialogue, proving her cinematic talent once again. This is the movie’s main focus and therefore also its greatest weakness, because beyond Isabelle Huppert, the film lacks strength and clarity, despite the hand-picked vocabulary of its characters.