Woman. Erno A.

In the geriatric department of the hospital in a suburb of Paris, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease dies. Her daughter, writer Annie Erno, trying to cope with the loss, takes on a new book in which the story of one human fate unfolds - a woman born in a poor Norman family before the First World War and has been sought to overcome the boundaries of her class. “I think I am writing about my mother, because my turn has come to the world,” Erno explains her undertaking and lives in a letter scene behind her maternal life until her hesitation, dwelling on separate episodes with their mother of difficult relations with impassiveness biographer - and the inconsolation of a daughter, left alone with an irreparable lack.