 Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev s A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he ll make her happy on stage - she will shine. But things don t go to plan. Denis introduces Marcelline to his assistant, Nathalie. The two women were at drama school together twenty years earlier. Nathalie tells her she had to give up acting: she has a husband and children. Marcelline and Nathalie look at each other as if in a mirror, each seeing in the other the life she doesn t have, the dreams she cannot bear to abandon. Their meeting is the first in a series of tremors that will turn Marcelline s life upside down.