Henri Saulquin

Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline. They all struggle to express, or feel, their love for one another.

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.