Eva’s being allowed to leave the psychiatric institution she’s lived in for six years. After a long year of waiting, the news arrive: an assisted living residence is found for her. Eva takes the first steps towards the "normal" life she longs for: to find a job, earn an income of her own, visit her mother... even find love. While she’s taking stock of her past and works on her self-confidence as well as her trust in the outside world, she also fixes firmly on her main goal: to reconnect with the son she lost custody of 20 years ago and ask him to forgive her. The First Woman is a film about second chances, the search for "normality" and the borderline between lucidity and darkness.

Eva recibe el alta tras seis años ingresada en un hospital psiquiátrico. Es el primer paso hacia la vida normal que tanto anhela pero, por encima de todo, Eva tiene un sueño: reencontrarse con su hijo y pedirle perdón, tras quince años de silencio.