Abandoned in the early months of her life by her mother, Norah, aged 17, lives alone with her father. Norah unconsciously feels responsible for her mother's leaving, but family taboos have always prevented her from expressing her pain. Instead of confronting the past, Norah escapes into an imaginary world. When rally car driver Nico Marcuse dies in an accident she witnesses on television, she invents a friendship with him. He becomes both a judge and a magician; he helps and protects her. Instead of solving her own problems, Norah gets involved with the problem of others. She wants to be a saint: a perfectly irreproachable individual. Norah's perfectly organized life is turned upside-down the day she meets her maternal grand-mother of whom she ignored the existence. She gives her granddaughter a little inheritance and her mother's address in Switzerland. From mistakes to clumsiness, from confontations to disappointments, Norah's life becomes a real nightmare. She then understands she has no choice left: she must face her past.
