When one brother murders another in a jealous rage and scars his intended, fate sets the wheels in motion. With her love on the floor in a puddle of blood and nothing to live for, her white dress torn and bloody, Veronique climbs the footbridge spanning the Chamois River. One last look up to the sky and a prayer winged into the night, she lets go... Her leap plunges her toward the embracing grave of the dark water, but the arms of destiny reach out and a falling star is intercepted. Rescued by a passing gypsy who delivers her to the kumpania, this ordinary, yet headstrong, woman must find her lust for life and learn to love again. Amid a family of mysterious and lustful gypsies in the sweeping countryside of southern France in the 1930's, the Gypsy King knows all and reveals little.