The remarkable Marie-Louise Chapelle combined two lives: six months a year she was a mother, and the other six months she conquered unclimbed mountains. Seventy years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen is following in her footsteps. Driven by Chapelle's archive of diaries, letters and footage, Vermeulen traverses with her camera the inhospitable snow landscapes that have changed beyond recognition through time and climate. She interweaves images she shot herself with Chapelle's archive material and reflects on her own life questions: a life with children, or without? An extraordinary journey and an intimate search for meaning, in which time, memories and choices become deeply intertwined. A film about limits, desires and the complexity of being a woman.