 Decades after their release from Drancy, their emotional wounds still affect their lives in different ways when they meet again.Now in her 50s, Melanie is married to David Winters (Plummer), a cold and grouchy older professor of history, who was once her teacher and who has been unfaithful to her with his current students.A now-elderly poet, Jakob, having survived the gulag, has recently been released from a Russian psychiatric hospital.