In this gently absurd, picaresque idyll, a young hairdresser from the city makes a pilgrimage to the open plateaus of southern France in search of the mysterious, blood-sucking ‘ounayes’. There she meets a grizzled older shepherd, and the pair go wandering in search of his missing flock. Encounters with a bandit and a bounty hunter punctuate their serenely pleasurable quest – an indolent afternoon of loping philosophical conversations, sex and sunshine.