La vache et le prisonnier

Charles Bailly, a French prisoner of war in Germany in the summer of 1943, decides to escape from the farm where he is forced to work and go home to France. Observing that a man with a cow and a milk pail passes unnoticed in the Bavaria countryside, his plan is to take one (who he names Marguerite) and to walk with her to Stuttgart, where he will leave her and hide aboard a train for France.