No-one wants to play football with Gaby now that she has breasts. Like every other year, the 13-year-old is spending the summer with her dad on a small island off the Canadian coast – and she is not about to pretend that she’s suddenly a different person.

Back in town after years abroad, an idealistic woman takes upon herself to spruce up her blasé sister's sentimental life by fooling around with the messages she leaves her fiancé on the fridge.

On the fringe of society in a remote part of the French-Canadian countryside, the fragile relationship and unusual private life of a father and daughter is jeopardized by dreary, unforeseen circumstances.