On a winter night, lawyer Michelle (Ian Holm Ian Holm) is washing her car in a car wash when she receives a call from her drug-addicted daughter Zoe, which exposes the conceptual contradiction between father and daughter. With a sulking Michelle, she encountered the embarrassment that the door could not be opened during the car wash, and finally had to abandon the car angrily and walk away. Earlier, on the plane, Michelle met her daughter's former friend Alison and told him why the father and daughter fell apart. Michelle witnessed a car accident in a small town where the school bus carrying school-age children accidentally overturned and fell into a lake, causing many families to lose their own flesh and blood. During the visit, Michelle came into contact with a variety of families, some father-daughter abnormal love, some alcoholism and violence, and some illness. In order to help them ask the government for a pension, the lawyer embarked on a rough road of helping others. This film won the jury Award of the 50th Cannes Film Festival.