Julie is a young woman from Rose Hill (Mauritius) who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean, a younger man. However, his father disagrees.
After a horrific incident, a young woman escapes into the mountains and is found by an engineer who nurses her back to health and hides her from the police.
Two young men from Zurich want to make the big deal by driving two cars from Zurich to Cairo.