Seventeen-year-old Louise, lives alone in the woods. It is a life she has chosen, for she doesn't need anyone—not a mother, not a man, not society. All she needs is right there: the light of day, the humus of the undergrowth, the berries she picks for food: that's already plenty. And so, so much better than what she left behind... Until one day she meets Paul, a strange young man who stumbles across her by accident. He brings back all the things she's been running away from. And new things, too...