There is nothing stronger than a mother's love, but sometimes it has a destructive power because, like any medicine, in excessive doses it becomes poison.
Félicité Kaznav is the embodiment of excessive care; she treats her fifty-year-old son as if he were a weak and foolish child. However, against his mother's wishes, he marries the young neighbor Mathilde. Félicité burns with jealousy and vows never to let her son go, starting a real war with her true enemy - the calculating daughter-in-law.

Raymond Courrej leads a dissolute life: he has many mistresses, and he regularly visits bars and nightclubs. For many years, the man has entertained himself with the hope of meeting Maria Cross again, and one night, while in one of his favorite establishments, he sees the woman he longs to take revenge on.
Thanks to this unexpected encounter, memories from seventeen years ago unfold before the reader, when two men, a young man and his father, were in love with the same woman. Neither of them could win her, and neither could forget her…