Fortyish Matty (Barbara Sarafian) is a middle-class mother of three who works at the post office in Moscow, Belgium. Things have not turned out as she imagined they would in her life. Her husband Werner (Johan Heldenbergh), an art teacher, has left her for an affair with one of his female students. Her children are all oddballs: 16-year-old Vera (Anemone Valcke) has fallen in love with another woman, Fien (Sofia Ferri) reads the Tarot to everyone in the family and elsewhere, and Peter (Julian Borsani) lives in his own private world of airplanes.
One day while shopping, Matty backs her car into a truck driven by Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet), a working-class stiff with a nasty temper and a chauvinistic attitude toward women. They scream at one another until the police arrive to sort out the details. It turns out that Johnny is well-known to them for other incidents. He offers some sugary treats to her two youngest kids and then arrives the next day to fix the trunk of her car. Much to the dismay of Vera, who doesn't like either her father or this newcomer, Matty goes out on a date with him. It turns out that he is 29 years old and was betrayed by the one woman he loved dearly.
When Werner finds out that his wife is seeing another man, he jealously does some detective work and tells Matty that Johnny has been in prison. It's true that Johnny brings plenty of baggage into their relationship including alcoholism and a violent streak. But once she has sex with him and learns that he sees her as his own enchanting Mona Lisa, there is no turning back. That is, until Werner gets involved in their lives again.
Christophe van Rompaey directs this romantic comedy. He draws out a superb performance from Barbara Sarafian, who delivers the many different moods of Matty, a woman who thought she had run out of options.
