The story of the meeting of two people who never should have met. A passionate love story that twists the hands of fate and changes lives.

French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter. Together, they flee the U.S. during the oppressive McCarthy era and come to France, where they experience a short-lived euphoria. Soon, distant and frightening memories begin to emerge in Niki’s mind. Her vocation as an artist will be her salvation.

When France hears on the radio that an NGO is putting in touch homeless migrants and people who are willing to welcome them, she decides, against her family's opinion to welcome Reza, a young Afghan broken by war and exile.