Ghosted by her hunky twenty-something lover, Ludo, 50 year-old professor and divorced single mother, Claire Millaud (Juliette Binoche), creates a fake profile on social media in order to do a little undetected spying on him. She finds a photo of a pretty young brunette online and creates, Clara, a beautiful 24 year-old avatar. But Ludo only accepts friend requests from people he knows personally. To get to him, Claire sends his best-friend, the equally attractive Alex, a friend request and he accepts. Alex, Ludo’s friend, is instantly enamored. Claire, trapped by her avatar, falls madly in love with him. The pair begins to exchange messages and their fake friendship turns into a fake love affair. Their superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrollable obsession. Claire is in love with Alex, and he is in love with her fake profile. Now he wants to meet the 24-year-old beauty he's been chatting with. She invents a busy job, professional trips and even a jealous ex. The more and more in love they are the more the situation becomes unbearable. Claire is torn between the impossibility of this love and the pain of having to admit her deception and risk losing it.
