A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Mathilde, despite her nurse's diploma, is a thirty year old struggling when it comes to work. She discovers poker when she becomes pregnant. Her nickname, La Tueuse (The Killer), is due to the pitiless way she destroys her opponents at the gaming table. But Mathilde becomes addicted to the game and her life turns upside down.
Set mostly in the woods in the south of France, a fateful encounter changes the lives of a man and a woman.
