Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a “luminous journey” in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; he, far from his native England and the sad memory of his lost wife and daughter. In the course of a few days, a few words, Céline experiences her first true moments of childhood and lightness, exhilaration and trust. Peter goes towards the last days of a life that he offers, like a sublime and aging angel, to this wounded child.

The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

“I have a gift for disaster,” says John Morlar (Ricard Burton). Morlar is cursed with a unique telekinesis power that only seems to cause disaster.