After recognizing his abandoned mother's body in a Marseille morgue, Patrice (Gérard Klein) murders her former pimp in revenge. Fleeing the crime, he embarks on a nomadic journey across southern France. He meets Marie (Julie Jézéquel), with whom he spends a passionate night, and later connects with a friend named Jean (Didier Flamand). Reunited with Marie, Patrice settles down in Paris, where they have a child together. However, as Marie begins to wither under the weight of their life and his troubled past, Patrice realizes his presence is destroying her and chooses to abandon them to wander once more.