In the heart of summer, Caroline, Parisian and mother in her forties, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must urgently organize the funeral of her mother, a fickle lawyer, whom she hardly saw any more. She is greeted by Pattie who likes to tell whoever wants to listen to her love affairs with local men. As the whole valley prepares for the famous balls of August 15, the body of the deceased mysteriously disappears.