"First we saw a sickle and then only a black disc with a radiation wreath." Excited, eight-year-old Yves tells of a solar eclipse when psychologist Eliane Hess is called to his hospital bed in the middle of the night. As the only one of his family, Yves has survived a car accident. Eliane is simultaneously shaken and banished by the fate of the traumatized boy. Between the two, an invisible band weaves and the border between professional and private blurs. But Yves keeps a secret. What happened on the enigmatic accident night that the little one can't talk about? While aunt and grandmother argue over custody of the orphan, Eliane makes a bold decision.