To flee an abusive husband, Catherine decides to appeal to a group of women who help her to move and change her identity. She settles in a new city, where she finds a job and where she begins to rebuild her life. Her teenage son had trouble coping with this uprooting and living conditions were difficult. But Catherine, who is now called Sophie, hangs on. She even meets a man, a trucker fascinated by her. But Sophie is difficult to approach. The specter of her violent husband is always present, but she gradually learns to confront him.