Mena lives alone with her daughter Clara. Today is Clara’s seventh birthday. Despite her limited financial resources, Mena still manages to organise a birthday party. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught and anxious.

Sara moved to London to find a job in graphic design, but she's stuck in a restaurant kitchen. Today, after one more rejection, she starts facing her failures and the reality of her life. Torn between her Portuguese roots and the need to make her own path, Sara finds herself on the edge of change.

1997. Vera is an introverted ten year old that lives with her mother Luísa in Lisbon. Christian, her estranged French father, only visits once a year. But this summer he invites Vera to come to his house in France. Vera hesitates, realising she doesn’t really know Christian. They don’t even have a common language. Will Vera finally connect with her father? What are the effects of fatherlessness in one’s life?