After a Sino-French love affair that blossomed in Beijing faded, Hua (played by Ren Jie) decided to quit her job as a teacher in Beijing and go to Paris to find her boyfriend, but she still failed to change his mind. Wandering in a strange city, Hua, who was lost, met a French blue-collar Matthew (played by Tahar Rahim). Matthew immediately showed great courtesy to the Chinese girl and violently possessed her, and the desperate Hua also accidentally developed feelings for Matthew. Although Matthew was madly in love with Hua, he and his friends seemed to have always treated Hua as a bitch, and the rift between the two gradually became a chasm. The muddle-headed life in Paris and the love and resentment between her and Matthew made Hua start to miss home. She began to explore what she really wanted between sex and love, between freedom and nostalgia... This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Liu Jie, a Chinese female writer living in Paris.