Summer 1941: Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Convoys of cargo ships with war materials began the perilous journey to Murmansk, and ordinary sailors face the German superiority in the icy Arctic sea, putting their lives at stake....
The film tells the story of three people for a year: a son (Magimel) diagnosed with cancer, a mother (Deneuve) suffering from helplessness and a doctor (Cécile de France) to do her job: One year and four seasons for these three characters to deal with the disease, to tame it, and to understand what it means to die while alive....
