Relying on voice-over texts, such as excerpts of the essay 'Our Need for Consolation Is Insatiable' by Swedish author Stig Dagerman or of the poem 'Fiançailles' by Guillaume Apollinaire, the film 'Consolation' screens women and men of different ages and from different backgrounds, and tells us about their relations to the world, their memories, their identities, their emotions, their doubts...