Sometimes desires blind us, and the valuable things we have fade into the background in front of great but illusory goals. Having fallen in love with a poor young man, Marie was afraid of her feelings and jumped out to marry a random acquaintance - just to get away from her disgusted home further away, to Paris. However, life in the capital turned out to be worse than hell, the husband ran away, and there is no turning back. All that was left was to survive, raise her daughter and only dream that someday fate would give her another meeting with the one she loved more than life itself...