Eleven-year-old Paloma Josse is a precocious child who lives with her family in a small block of upscale Paris apartments. Her politician father is too busy to notice her and her mother is too self-involved. Paloma values nothing from her privileged world. She views the lives of the rich families around her as shallow and materialistic. Then a new tenant, Japanese businessman Mr Ozu, moves into the apartments and he notices the building’s quiet middle-aged concierge, Renée Michel.