Paris, 1930. Paul has always known only one horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, a stern building in the working-class suburbs of Paris. Entrusted to a cheerful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the somewhat rigid gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the reluctant and stubborn city boy arrives in a mysterious and unsettling world, that of a wild and untamed region.