Abbas, a French teacher, has fled war in the Central African Republic in order build a new life in France. While waiting to be granted refugee status, Abbas daily life takes shape: his children go to school and he works in market where he encounters Carole, who is moved by the courage of this man still haunted by the ghosts of his past.
But if asylum is rejected, what will become of Abbas and his uprooted family? And what will happen to Carole, deprived of the home that she'd believed she had rebuilt with them?