In 1975, Lili (Isild Le Besco), a quiet upper-bourgeois Parisian girl bored with her twin roles as daughter and art student, abruptly takes up with ahandsome, gentle-looking boy (Ouassini Embarek) of Moroccan descent.
Perhaps he is neither, just an orphan who carries with him the picture of his handsome parents, killed in a car-crash near the pyramids when he was aboy, together with an abundance of good will which he showers on others.