In Paris, Ali lives with his partner Eric. They're happy. But one day, Ali receives a phone call from his sister who warns him that their mother has been hospitalized. She had a stroke. Ali then decides to return to Besançon, his hometown. But he dreaded the trip terribly because, five years earlier, he had to leave it, rejected by his parents and those around him who could not accept his homosexuality. Ali makes the trip with Eric. The more he approaches his goal, the more he remembers his complicated past on the spot, in a practicing Muslim family ...