After she murders her middle-aged lover, a fourteen-year-old girl reflects back on the bohemian life she shared years earlier with her mother, a free-spirited cabaret performer. Portrayed with searing intensity by writer-director Myriam Mézières, Lily attempts to elevate her performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she drags her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, ultimately losing the child to the authorities. This most recent collaboration between veteran Swiss director Alain Tanner and the multi-talented Mézières explores the familiar territory of mother-daughter relationships, here tested to the extreme by the complexities of life on the fringes of society.