On an island in French Polynesia a writer returns to her country after having triumphed in France with a novel. However, it is disoriented and with a creative crisis. Given the impossibility of writing new works, he decides to accept a simultaneous translation job with an ambassador. A strange loving attraction begins between them, full of contrasts. Little by little she realizes the cynicism of international politics, with a latent threat of new nuclear tests by the French government. Your love story with the ambassador will be affected by that conflict, and interest and romanticism will mix in a confusing and absorbing way until the sad end.