A young woman, Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse, travels to Paris to do psychoanalysis with the maverick French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The film is based on the play Goodbye, Doctor and the novel The Parrot and the Doctor by Brazilian psychoanalyst and writer Betty Milan, who was actually Lacan’s analysand. The film, according to Mavis Himes, “gently, subtly and accurately portrays an analytic treatment, and more specifically a treatment that proceeds along the lines of a Lacanian cure”.