In 2006, Director Tony Gatlif and composer Delphine Mantoulet won the Georges Delerue Prize at Film Fest Gent for the score, and Gatlif was nominated for the Grand Prix award.

Zingarina (Asia Argento), a rebellious Italian girl who travels to Transylvania with her best friend Marie (Amira Casar) and a young interpreter, Luminita (Alexandra Beaujard), seeking her fiancee and father of the baby she's expecting, Milan Agustin (Morgan), who has been expelled from France, the country where they had met and fallen in love.

Zingarina finds Milan at the winter "Herod's Carnaval" (Festival of customs and traditions) but he tells her that their love story is over.

The girl, angry and crushed, doesn't want to return to France or Italy.

Zingarina exploits a temporary absence of Marie (the woman was at a phone-cabine) for running away from her (leaving a note only), in order to go after Vandana, a vagrant little girl.