Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

In a remote countryside in France, Hugo, a marginalised and drug addicted young man meets Sandrine, a single mother of a little girl. Quickly, they fall in love and for a while each of them has access to a form of peace and happiness. But the social and psychological tensions specific to their environment leave them little respite.