The plot follows a girl who, whilst looking for her runaway brother, encounters a number of people who influence her life.

She arrives at the southern French seaport of Toulon to attend the wedding of her older sister Maïté to Nourredine, a North African.

At the wedding celebration, Jeanne meets Klotz, a struggling middle-aged bisexual orchestra conductor prone to drinking.

In her lunch hour from work, a lover is waiting for Maïté, who confesses to Jeanne that she married Nourredine only to have a child.

When Jeanne finds Alain, she moves into the modest hotel he shares with Saïd, which is run by a repatriated Pied-Noir from Algeria.

Jeanne finds herself torn between the two men a French and a North African in a romantic and sexual dilemma that mirrors France's political turmoil regarding the nation's growing Arab population.