Stéphane, a young parisian, arrives in Rumania, obsessed with finding a legendary gipsy singer. Helped by old Isidor, the cla leader of the village, Stéphane eases into this chaotic but passionate world of gipsy musicians, alternately picaresque and violent, funny and grating. He falls in love with Sabina, an attractive outlaw, and finds his place in this world of suspicion and xenophobia, where learns the real meaning of tolerance.