 Two young Italians, Ernesto, a hothead on the run from the law for committing a murder and Giancarlo, his older protective brother, hide among the grape pickers of a vineyard somewhere in Provence. Giancarlo, quiet and mature, falls in love with fragile, sensitive Lucienne while Ernesto develops a burning passion for Léone, the neglected wife of Louis Morel, the vine grower who employs them. Troubles are bound to follow...