In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.

Vincent Cassel
as Paul Gauguin

Tuheï Adams
as Tehura

Malik Zidi
as Henri Vallin

Pua-Taï Hikutini
as Jotepha

Marc Barbé
as Stéphane Mallarmé

Paul Jeanson
as Émile Bernard

Scali Delpeyrat
as Hector, the Art Dealer

Victor Boulenger
as Art Dealer's Assistant

Cédric Eeckhout
as Meijer de Haan

Samuel Jouy
as Émile Schuffenecker