Jill’s legs are paralyzed, so she spends her childhood shut away in her apartment, along with her unconventional family and her own imagination. When her parents die, she recovers the use of her legs and becomes apprentice to an anthropologist. The young woman has a true gift for this field, which fascinates her. Over time, she takes part in an ambitious archeological project: dating and reconstituting a female skeleton found in the well of a Cathar stronghold.