Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes a famous composer She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life shes only dreamed about where she meets Brevannes and a DecemberMay romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide Henri Vidal