A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.

• Constantin Film
• Greta Scacchi
• Vincent D'Onofrio
• Anaïs Jeanneret
• Hanns Zischler
• Barbara Jones
• Rolf Illig
• Petra Berndt
• László I. Kish