Ève Guillou

South of France. In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighborhood. The mood changes when Nil Terzi, a teenage girl of Turkish origin, flees an arranged marriage, running to the arms of her gypsy lover, Lucky Molina. Their escape sparks hostilities between the two clans. When the jousting and the musical battles begin, Geronimo struggles to quell the ensuing unrest around her.

A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few months and work in vineyards, they learn that a new law forbids them from being nomadic. Theodore, the town's mayor, and Miss Lundi, the schoolteacher, protect and help the Gypsies. Despite this, They are arrested and placed in an internment camp. Theodore manages to rescue them and gives them a piece of property where they must settle. But the Gypsies' deeply ingrained thirst for freedom makes this sedentary lifestyle difficult to bear. After Theodore and Miss Lundi are arrested for resistance, the Gypsies decide they must get back on the move in order to remain free.

Zingarina llega a Transylavania, acompañada por su amiga cercana Marie y su guía e intérprete Luminitsa. No solo está allí para visitar esta región de Rumania, sino para rastrear a su amante, Milan, un músico que la dejó embarazada y que la dejó sin una explicación. Cuando ella lo encuentra de vuelta, él la rechaza brutalmente y Zingarina está terriblemente molesta. Ella deja a sus dos compañeros y, al haberse convertido en un desastre, apenas sobrevive siguiendo a una niña errante. Su destino cambia para mejor cuando conoce a Tchangalo, un comerciante ambulante.

Historia de la desolación y desamparo de una niña de cuatro años que ha perdido a su madre. Un drama que obtuvo unanimidad al calificar como impresionante la actuación de la niña.