Eve is an emergency medical technician who falls in love with Damien Sagamore Stévenin a handsome and caring man who runs a neighborhood bar in the Belgian countryside When Damien and Eve become a couple she joins him in looking after the bar and becomes friendly with the regular customers but things take an unexpected turn when Eve is in a serious auto accident While Eve walks away with no serious physical injuries shes emotionally ravaged by the experience and develops a severe speech impediment Eves new stutter makes it hard for her to communicate with Damien and she becomes the butt of jokes from the customers Eve is increasingly isolated and Damien takes up with another woman until Eve retaliates by trapping him in their home and forces him to reestablish the building blocks of their relationship starting with their sexual communication Meanwhile Eves struggle to speak is contrasted with one of the taverns annual events an animal calling contest
