Marcel and Mila have recently split up. As every year, they're going to stay with Marcel's mother for Christmas in the south of France, where somehow they'll have to tell her the news.

A Swiss crime thriller and psychological drama with a difference - the action follows a high stakes poker game secretly watched by the police. Half a million francs are in the pot but more than just money is at stake.

Gabrielle, a pleasant woman in her sixties, learns that she is about to be evicted from her second-hand shop...