Since her meeting with the great writer Bernard Chalenton, Claudine’s life seems to have stopped. She is obsessed by a book of this author – Mr. White – that she has been reading and reading over again for nearly two years. Her daughter – Colette – whom she abandoned at birth, decides to try to communicate with the psychologically fragile woman. Obsessed by the world she has built around the novel, Claudine shows interest only to the literary creation of her daughter. Colette agrees to enter into the neurosis of her mother to communicate with her. This experiment is going to take an unexpected dimension when Bernard Chalenton – the famous writer – shows up. The literary journey of Colette turns out into a fight with this perverted man…