在这部春江花月夜剧情/爱情片中,将近19岁的马吕斯觉得自己在马赛的生活很乏味，他的生活是由他的咖啡馆拥有的父亲计划的，他渴望大海。他在5年航程中离开的前一天晚上，与他一起长大的一个女孩范妮透露出她爱上了他，他发现他也爱上了她。他必须在一个令人兴奋的海上生活和他爱的女人的无聊生活中做出选择。范妮必须在保持她所爱的男人之间，让他过他想要的生活中做出选择。
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.
