Osamu and his family live in poverty in Tokyo. Trying to make ends meet, he and his son shoplift. They live in a humble abode on the periphery, forming with the other members of the household a weird clan of petty criminals. One day, Osamu discovers a little homeless girl, playing alone in frost weather on a balcony...

For generations of film fans, Romy Schneider represents a Romantic dream come true – Sissi, the noble Empress of Austria. Yet now the once-celebrated actress arrives at the rehab clinic at Quiberon, a seaside town in western France, as a broken woman, an artist at the end of her career, a mother who in vain strives ...