Salene (Mireille Darc) is a free-spirited female who tries to reform the petty thief Carl (Hardy Kruger) when she falls in love in this light romantic drama. She spends the majority of the film bedding down with men she chooses or are chosen for her by close personal friends. Salene and Carl run away together and leave his two cohorts to botch the planned robbery of a millionaire gambler.