Laura dies at a young age from a tragic illness, leaving behind a young daughter named Lucie and her devastated husband David. Laura's dismayed best friend Claire then takes it upon herself to stand by the widower during his period of mourning and also to actively support him in his fatherly duties. David himself, on the other hand, tries to compensate for the sudden absence of Lucie's mother by unfolding his feminine side, which he had kept hidden from the outside world all his life. When Claire witnesses this sudden inner as well as outer change in David, she is shocked at first. But her growing interest in his secret soon makes the new situation more and more familiar...