What does it mean for a woman to lose her parents and make a family of her own, only to end up alone? What does it mean to move from country to country, from language to language? A Woman is a cinematic essay about identity, a search into the wounds of exile and reflection on the function of memory. It is a haunting and intimate portrait of the director’s own mother: A personal look into the life of a French orphan woman, that starts on the coast of the Saône in Burgundy and ends on the shores of the Río de la Plata, Argentina. A film about remembering and forgetting.