She likes his feet and his unintentional sense of humour. He likes her eccentric breakfasts and above all, the fact that she’s really funny. Hicham and Lilia are thirty something and have been living together in the suburb of Toulouse for 4 years. For a while now, Hicham has a growing desire to have a baby. He mostly wants his dad, a widower and imam of the neighbourhood, to become a grandpa before returning to Morocco. Lilia is more focused on a project she dropped years ago: her thesis about love and desire among factory workers. She just received some recordings of moving interviews with a group of workers: “Listen doc… At the factory, we had to forget that we had sex or an even a heart. So, it just seems like your sex doesn’t forgive you forgetting it. It doesn’t get hard anymore. But if I don’t have the strength to have a kid, what am I left with?... What are we left with impotent?!”
Eventually they learn that Hicham suffers from asthenospermia. Their only chance to become parents: ART. A process begins that will become the most profound and intimate ordeal of their life. At the end, they won’t have a baby and they will have to take distance from each other. However, separated they come to realise that sharing their deepest fragilities has inexorably bound them even closer together.