A writer shelters an illegal Arab immigrant woman in his manor. She agrees to model for his metafiction essay, leading to an unfamiliar life behind closed doors with the writer, groom, and gardener.
A writer remembers the time when, isolated in a manor and its surrounding lands, living with a groom and a gardener, he met a young illegal immigrant woman from the Arab world. He sheltered this foreigner in exchange for an unusual offer: being the model of his next metafiction essay. This wandering woman, exiled from everything, discovers the rules of this unexpected hospitality. It's the beginning of an unfathomable life behind closed doors...