In the beginning was the Word. "I’ve got a really funny thing to tell you", the off-camera voice of the narrator/director confides, immediately setting out the film’s proclivity for all things strange and starting out like a journal. Eléonore really needs to see the sea, so she jumps into her car and heads west. But her speedy car breaks down in the middle of the countryside, as if to stop her from going round in circles. She finds herself trapped, the victim of an enforced break, right in the heart of Brittany. Brought to a standstill in the temporary refuge of a mobile home, she treats herself to a view over a lake, since the sea’s no longer an option. As she randomly crosses paths with the campsite regulars, she reconnects with her old childhood habits and with a time when she spent hours watching her neighbours.