This is the story of the intersection of two lives. In France, an older man, who is set in his ways, is living his life day to day in quiet desperation. He and his wife are sleepwalking through their lives. In a quirk of fate, the wife dies, leaving the husband to run the farm by himself. In the mean time, a young woman in Romania is barely making ends meet. She is a single mother with a young daughter.
The man decides to buy a Romanian wife- the rest of the story is how their lives intertwine.