In France, an illegal immigrant in the Lille area, a young Chinese woman tries to pay back her smuggler by working as a manicurist.
Xiu Yan, a young Chinese woman illegally immigrates to France, hoping to help her parents. She arrives in Lille in Little Wenzhou, a small Chinatown area where Asian and other immigrants try to live together. Through her smuggler, Xiu Yan is soon hired as a manicurist by the dreadful Madame Deng.