A sixty-something painter and a teenage runaway make an unlikely partnership in this comedy drama from French director Jean Becker. Deciding he's had enough of his mundane life, depressed painter Taillandier (Patrick Chesnais) leaves it all behind and hits the road in an effort to find solace. En route, he gives a lift to teenager Marylou (Jeanne Lambert) who has been thrown out by her mother. Over the course of their travels the pair, despite some initial setbacks, gradually begin to earn each others respect, in the process helping one another to finally get their lives back on track.