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Even at their first meeting Roméo and Juliette speculate, that they will be threatened by a tragic fate because of their name constellation. First, it does not seem to come true - the two fall in love with each other and deepen their relationship quickly so that they move together soon and bear a son. After a few anomalies in his behavior, they enquired a pediatrician who encounters a brain tumour in the newborn. Despite the hopelessness, Romeo and Juliette don’t want to accept the fate of their son, but they want to fight for his and their common future. The couple is supported by friends and their parents who could not be more contradictory: Romeo's mother and her lesbian partner on the one hand, Juliette’s conservative parents on the other. Inconsistencies are also in the further course of the film to the supporting theme. They reflect how incredible it seems that these young, happy parents are faced with a terminal illness and death.
 

In addition, the situation put the relationship between the two on the test – similar to other young adults of their generation, they are convinced that they don’t have to renounce anything just because they become parents. And even if they get a remarkable endurance when trying to fight the tumour, to balance their jobs, a fulfilling relationship and party life, they need to ask in the end, whether their relationship can survive the hardships.

Director Valérie Donzelli, also playing the leading part on the side of her former partner Jeremie Elkaim, pick in this autobiographical, between drama and comedy settled movie not only the suffering of patients and their families out, but also the coming-of-age story of the two protagonists - emotion and surprising till the end.