Hélène is a forty-year-old woman who becomes amnesic after a period in a coma. She then discovers that she lives with Nicolas, her husband. A stranger to a life she is supposed to know perfectly, she meets Nelle, a home care assistant, who brings a breath of fresh air into her monotonous life.
Philomène, a teenager of African origin, loves Bastien, a guy in her class. But with her frizzy hair, she doesn't feel she has the weapons of seduction to challenge those girls with vaporous hair. She gets a weave. Philomène lives this capillary change as a metamorphosis.