Cécile Lugiez

Despite her best intentions and hard work, a single mom with two sons just can't make ends meet and is forced to depend upon credit just to get by. Desperate, she can see only one solution left to save her family: stage a hold-up.

In the eighth month of her pregnancy, which she is struggling to fully accept, Lucile discovers that her paternal grandmother is not dead, as she had always been told, but is alive and well in a small village in the Morvan region. Does this secret hide a terrible curse that would strike all the boys in the family and threaten Lucile's child? Or does it hide other family secrets? Against the advice of her loved ones, Lucile leaves for Morvan, determined to face the ghosts of her past...

Marie is a sweet and lively single mother who gets a Christmas Day surprise - she’s inherited an estate in Saint Petersburg!