Berated by her family for her fretful 'nerves' and extreme sensitivity Yvette yearns to break free from her claustrophobic home enviroment. On an outing with some friends her emotions are shaken by a chance meeting with a swarthy gipsy.
Drawn towards him by his inmediate sexal power Yvette is introduced to the gipsy camp where her fortune is told in secret. The gipsy's dark vitality and supreme arrogance make him a symbol of liberation to Yvette and although she is restrained by convention her fate is inextricably and deastatingly linked with his.