40-year-old Parisian high school teacher Rachel loves her life: she's inspired by her work and is close to her friends, sister and widowed father. When she meets a man in her community guitar class - the charming and recently-separated Ali, Rachel commences a relationship not only with him, but also his four-year-old daughter, Leila. Gradually, she's drawn into their world, helping Ali by collecting Leila after school and looking after her on the nights she stays with them; the three even start to share holidays together. There can be no denying Leila already has a mother and Rachel's yearning for a family of her own is only growing stronger...