Spirited and impulsive Louise is in the final year of her art history degree. For her dissertation she intends to track down a lost painting - the Venus of Collioure - whose disappearance is one of the mysteries of the art world.

She travels to France where she meets the dissolute artist Milo Charpentier and his commune of voluptuous models. Their lifestyle is one of pastoral bliss, sensual indulgence and lustful pleasure. Louise must juggle her search for the painting with a series of highly-charged erotic encounters with a number of dashing Frenchmen. Will she achieve her goal by the end of the summer?