The film opens with a long contemplative walk through a beautiful park, displaying empty landscapes scorched with sunlight, where only shadows provide some relief. Just turned 20, Jacques spends the summer in his parents' estate in the South of France (Next to Montauban). Bored to death, he makes plan to rally one of his Parisian friends spending the summer in Spain. To the total dismay of his conservative family, he gets his sister to help him get a bus to Barcelona, where he eventually never meets his friend but gets initiated to the exoticism of the Spanish liberated youth instead.