Marie-Christine Boulard

Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible to return her alive...

During World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.