When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne’er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.

When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.

Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.