Rose, jeune fille au désir trouble, s'immisce dans la vie d'un ouvrier polonais venu en France rechercher son fils. Une relation triangulaire s’installe entre les trois personnages et déclenche, peu à peu, des bouleversements dans la vie de chacun. Jozef travels from Poland to France to work and to find his son Roman, who he abandoned 15 years earlier. Jozef works for a Polish immigrant family that has successfully settled in France. Rose, the family’s teenaged daughter, volunteers to help him find his son. Roman happens to go to the same school as Rose, and she finds him attractive. After an unexpectedly wonderful experience with Roman, she falls desperately in love with him.