Between her master's thesis, which she is struggling to finish writing, and her research director, of whom she is the mistress, Kiki feels like the permanent prey of all the ghosts of her dark past: her mother, interned in a psychiatric hospital, her grandmother. -mother, who raised her and seems on the verge of bowing out, her father whom she never knew, finally all the lovers who have stayed in her bed. While Kiki blindly searches for a way to put an end to her past, she lets herself be surprised by the attentions of a young baker who doesn't seem too frightened by the "intimate danger" she represents for herself. and for others.