Primrose Hill

The film opens with Sylvia narrating a dream in which a woman she believes is herself calls out to her four friends in a park. She recalls a melody that seems familiar, hinting at a shared past and a music-filled map of the city. This dream threads through the day, foreshadowing memory and longing.

The four friends finish a music rehearsal and set out on a day-long walk through the Parc de Saint-Cloud in Paris. Their conversations reveal a gap between their youthful ambitions and their current lives. The park becomes a moving stage for memory and unspoken desire.

As they walk, Joëlle laments that their conversations focus only on music, not life. Xavier vents his disillusion with his job at the local media library, while Sonia keeps performing elsewhere to pay the bills, drawing skepticism from Stéphane and Xavier. The talk lays bare how far their shared dreams have drifted.

Stéphane suggests an impulsive detour to the house of their old acquaintance Marc. They learn he now has a two-month-old daughter, signaling how their circle has moved on in unexpected ways.

On the way, Xavier answers a call from Mehdi asking them to visit Mehdi's brother Riccardo in the hospital after a six-story fall. The news interrupts their stroll and widens the mood from nostalgia to worry about fragile lives.

During their walk, it is revealed that Marc was Sylvia's partner for four years, a relationship that ended a year before her disappearance. The disclosure deepens the ache of Sylvia's absence and ties the past to the present gathering.

They locate Marc in the park playing football and join him in a melancholic, nostalgic game. The simple ritual becomes a shared moment of connection amid their drifting lives.

After the game they sit at an outdoor cafe and confront their collective inertia. Stéphane urges everyone to shake themselves and restart their music careers, but the others remain resigned to their circumstances.

Xavier and Sonia go into the hospital to visit Riccardo, while Stéphane and Joëlle wait outside and make small talk. The hospital scene emphasizes the stakes of health and time in relation to dreams.

As night falls, the group disperses and heads toward their separate paths. Stéphane and Joëlle walk on, and Joëlle presses about Sylvia; Stéphane reluctantly confirms a false police sighting near Dijon that offers little hope.

In Joëlle's childhood bedroom, the two lifelong friends share a quiet, awkward intimacy as they kiss and edge toward a new closeness amid wall-mounted record sleeves.

Stéphane bikes home to his parents' apartment, where his mother is unwell and his father reveals Sylvia's notebooks were checked again for clues, with no new information. He begins to read Sylvia's diaries alone in the quiet of night.

Sylvia's final voice-over ties the day to a broader map: she recalls deciphering the melody from her dream and links it to their Primrose Hill trip and a musical cartography of the city. The memory is vivid, recalling the vibrant colors and sunlight of the old photograph.

The film ends with the image freezing on the four friends walking together in present-day Paris during winter, while Sylvia's voice lingers on the photograph from Primrose Hill. The scene binds memory and present life into a single, suspended moment.