Julie’s father is a devout catholic who has never approved of her relationship with Henry, a Jew, and his curse on their relationship seems to be having an effect. When Julie and her twins, Nicholas and Nicole, come home early from a skiing holiday she opens the bedroom door and surprises her husband with another woman. Devastated by his infidelity, Julie rushes to sever their relationship. But a clean break proves impossible when Nicholas fall ill. The enchanted world of the twins, filled with imagination and their own secret language, is threatened when Nicholas’s allergy to his medicine suddenly forces the doctors to stop treatment.