Adelaide has just broken up with her boyfriend, after years of living together. As she enters the market of love, she discovers with horror that being forty-six years old is a powerful factor of discount in the market of feelings. Obsessed with the idea of meeting a man and marrying him as soon as possible, she feels guilty for not managing her solitude as a true feminist should. Surrounded by her friends, who are themselves entangled in their existential crisis, she tries to tame her celibacy, while doing her best work in a large publishing house. In the second half of life, a single woman does what she can. The statistics swirl around in her head and do not speak in her favor: “There are more women than men, and they die first.”
