Vicky, a strange and lonely child, has a gift: she can sense and reproduce any odour she wants, which she stores in carefully labelled vials. She has secretly extracted the odour of her mother, Joanne, for whom she has a mad, almost sick love. When her estranged aunt returns unexpectedly, the invocation of her fragrance plunges Vicky into magical and dark memories, where she discovers the secrets of her village, her family and her very existence.