Ten year-old Max (Oscar Copp) stumbles upon a community of Gypsies living on some waste ground near his grandmother’s house where he is holidaying for the summer. Drawn to the virtuoso guitar playing of Miraldo (Tchavolo Schmitt), Max ventures over to the wrong side of the tracks to buy a guitar, and convinces Miraldo to teach him how to play. In exchange, Max agrees to write letters to Social Security on Miraldo’s behalf. Max also befriends Swing (Lou Rech), Miraldo’s feisty, wild-child niece. Through his friendship with Swing and the Manouche culture, Max learns more than just playing the guitar. He learns about herbal remedies, the painful Gypsy past, and tastes, if only for a moment, what it is like to be truly free.