It was a summer unlike any other. Sybille promised Mickey one hundred kisses before the autumn. But he only got 73. The summer of the eclipse, fourteen year-old Sybille, arrives in a sleepy little town to spend her vacation from school with her Aunt Martha. By the time she leaves nothing will be the same. One day she falls head over heels in love with Alexandre, the astronomer who looks after the old observatory and who is a somewhat lonely widower. He is forty-one and thinks Sybille is much too young for love. Just as quickly, Alexandre′s son Mickey, also fourteen, falls for Sybille. He knows she must belong to him -at all cost- but she doesn′t take him seriously. Alexandre pretends not to see what is happening. Sybille is not to be underestimated. It is as if she has electrified the small town.