Betty (24), wakes up in a burns unit in hospital, crippled with pain and swaddled in bandages. She swings between dreams and memories, trying to free herself of the terror a violent man has aroused in her.

A woman struggles to mitigate her young adolescent son's dubious contact with another child at the neighborhood swimming pool.

Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and placed in public care. Desperate, but ready to do anything to get him back, she decides to join her friend Zoé in the capital... In this version freely inspired by Emile Zola's work, Nana's trajectory is a cross-section of contemporary society, from the jungle of the suburbs to the golden world of business.