Estelle is a psychiatrist devoted to her work and a fervent practitioner of Ericksonian hypnosis who leads a mostly peaceful life with her husband and son. But her life is turned upside down the day Thomas, her childhood sweetheart, reappears in her life—hospitalized in her ward following a suicide attempt. He is soon accused of killing a doctor who was Estelle’s rival. Estelle then flees with Thomas to the Provençal countryside in an attempt to clear his name and treat him. Her husband David and her best friend Agathe, as they investigate to find them before the police do, will uncover Thomas’s deeply troubled personality and begin to suspect that he poses a threat to Estelle. It is during this chase that the secrets linking Estelle and Thomas will finally resurface…