At the onset of the movie, we`re introduced to Hua (Corinne Yam), a Chinese woman working in Paris as a teacher, who`s in the midst of being unceremoniously dumped by her older lover. The tears have barely dried on her cheeks before she`s knocked off her feet (literally, with iron scaffolding) by 25-year-old construction worker Mathieu (Rahiem). The rest, they say, is historyâ€