After fruitless job searches in the small seaside town where he was born, Édouard is forced to go into exile in the big city. He regretfully leaves his mother-in-law Dorine, his wife Gemma and his daughter Chloé whom he adores. The impact of his absence is felt on all three women. Then comes the announcement of his unexplained death. Besides the wandering, the guilt and the anger that such an event arouses, there is the love, the hope and the idealism conveyed by youth, the unfulfilled desires and the common dream of a better future... However, when Gemma discovers a unique legacy left by the deceased, she finally believes she has found the key to happiness, but what is happiness in the eyes of the other? And how to access it?