Molodaia talantlivaia khudozhnitca Kamilla Fok zhivet v kroshechnoi komnatke-«chulane» pod kryshei roskoshnogo doma s vidom na Marsovo pole. Utonchennaia i ranimaia, ona somnevaetsia v svoem prizvanii, ne khochet bolshe risovat i rabotaet po nocham uborshchitcei ofisov. Odnazhdy zimnim vecherom bolnuiu ot kholoda i goloda devushku nakhodit ee sosed, zastenchivyi ochkarik Filiber. Vstrevozhennyi ee sostoianiem, on ugovarivaet ee kakoe-to vremia pozhit vmeste s nim i ego priiatelem Frankom â€" krasavtcem povarom, mototciklistom i khuliganom. Kamilla prinimaet priglashenie, i tak nachinaetsia ee novaia strannaia zhizn i odna iz samykh trogatelnykh i nezhnykh liubovnykh istorii Parizha.