Emma, a 35 year old woman, beaten by a violent husband, leaves their home in the middle of the night, taking her 5 year old daughter Chloé with her. She is received in a shelter for abused women where she discovers the tragic situations of other victims, from very different backgrounds.
Cezeslaw Bodrov, known as ‘the Pole’, is a widowed Breton peasant who lives alone in an old farmhouse. He has not spoken to his daughter Ida since she married an Asian man. After his daughter leaves with her husband and newborn child, ‘the Pole’ buys a lamb to give to his grandson born the year of the sheep.