Plot summary

Looking so beautiful in her dainty pale-white wedding dress, wide-eyed village girl Juliette leaves behind her tight-knit community to start anew aboard the weather-beaten barge, Atalante, with professional skipper Jean, her young husband. However, instead of filling her soul with adventure and exciting experiences, Juliette shares her already brief honeymoon on the Seine with Jules, a tattooed sea dog and devoted ailurophile, and the vessel's nameless cabin boy. Suddenly, the dream loses some of its lustre, and the bright lights of the seductive Parisian metropolis start to fade. Is this what she's been waiting for all her life? Is Juliette brave enough to sacrifice everything for a charming illusion?—Nick Riganas