An orphan, Remi, is entrusted to the Barberin family: the loving mom makes crepes for her fostered kid, her husband is a crude brute, whose affairs in Paris went wrong and left him an embittered man. Thus he sells Remi to a busker who takes the boy on all the roads of the country with his troupe of animals: three dogs and a monkey. As they travel through the land, Remi meets Arthur, a disabled boy who lives with his mother on a boat. He would like to stay with them, at Arthur's insistence, but fate decides otherwise.
