An older woman is taken in the night  against her will into a shabby apartment. She identifies herself as Pauline Weiss, and demands her "captors" to return her back home, to her loving rich and powerful husband. They tell her that she is in fact their mother, Jacqueline Amar, a poor Moroccan widow who worked as a cleaning women most of her life. A battle takes place on the true identity of this mysterious woman.
She will not disavow her status, fantastical though it may be, and they will not let her forget or renounce her true identity.