Thirsting for revenge, Maya - sister to the murdered boy - tracks down Aurore. Aurore struggles to escape her past.

Escaping her past and living under a new name, Aurore lives alone with her daughter Rose. She is a cook in a restaurant, saving to give her daughter a better life. One morning a journalist approaches her with and threatens to expose Aurore and derail her new life.

Aurore, a girl of perhaps 11, is poor and hungry. She comes across a younger neighborhood acquaintance who has a package of cookies. She attempts to steal them, but he resists, so without much emotion, she strangles him to death. She and her friend Chris try to cover up the crime.