Lucie, a little girl, breaks out in fits of anger; in therapy, the doctor discovers that her mother, anxious about fevers, takes her temperature 40 times a day. Angèle, 21, refuses to eat; how might an analyst provide support for anorexics? Léa, with phobia of streets and crowds, is doomed to live locked up in her apartment until a doctor helps her put words to her buried trauma. After years of infertility, Hélène gives birth to a little boy, who dies two days later: how can she keep on in the face of so much pain and suffering?