Artist Armand Hauterive sketches Romany girl Nadette Darson. When she returns to her caravan, they start to beat her, until Hauterive pays them money to be his model. She comes with him to his studio, where she discovers he is madly in love with another woman who rejects him.
Ah, those mad, impetuous gypsies! It's the sort of behavior expected from them, and from artists, too, starving in their garrets with bags of gold to give to their models' people. You could even say it's the bourgeouis idea of these people, thoroughly disapproving yet fascinating, and considering the director is Gérard Bourgeois, you wouldn't be wrong.