Along the French roads she travels, Agnes meets with many gleaners. These people, men or women, are gatherers, recyclers, and genuine treasure hunters. Out of necessity, chance or choice, the gleaners search that which others have discarded. Their world is an astonishing one, very different to that of the gleaners of the past, women who gathered the wheat left behind after the harvest. Agnes is a gleaner too, and her documentary is a subjective one. After all, making films is also a sort of gleaning.