Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair of lovers: his colleague and his wife who sells her body with her husband’s blessing.
Marion is a young woman who desperately wants to have a child. One evening, she meets a nurse who falls for her. The nurse promises her love and pregnancy (by robbing a sperm bank).
The fates of these two individuals in search of happiness will intersect in a hospital corridor...