It's summer, and France opens her shutters on a seaside town in Normandy. Two women meet on the beach, one a talented street performer who can take any role she chooses and remain hidden behind her lifestyle. Seeming at ease with a rucksack on her back, she carries a disturbing past and an ugly scar across her shoulder.

Hannah is an art teacher who has fled from a horrendous confrontation with the death of a colleague. She flees from Houndstooth Academy, taking her savage creativity with her.

Both women would agree that 'art is the soul made public' yet hide their truths from each other.