A young girl named Odette grows up in an old grey chateau beside the Loire, where evenings are spent listening to birds and dreaming in the rose garden. She is cared for by her devout Aunt Valerie and her nurse Fortune while the household’s quiet rituals and faded tapestries suggest loss: the aunt remains haunted by a husband killed in a duel and Odette's parents died abroad. Encounters with the local curé and tales of saints feed her imagination, blending religious reverie, melancholic memory, and whimsical, fairy-tale atmosphere in a delicate sequence of vignetted scenes.