Françoise Monneret

Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.

In a vegetable garden, four vegetables find that their good gardener, who has come to harvest them, has forgotten them. A small carrot, a timid leek and a cunning broccoli decide to send Patate, the fourth of the gang, as a scout...

Grand-Jacques the postman watches a mysterious wicker basket slowly float down from the sky and discovers a baby holding a small bell, and the adventure starts.