Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
In the Périgord, at the beginning of the century, Adrien, illegitimate child, is adopted by his grandmother. When the First World War ended, he becomes a railway man, and takes part in the strikes of 1920.
A confirmed bachelor,a council employee from a small village, is fascinated by a refined schoolteacher.
The Dordogne, 1869. Pierre Naboulet, a poor tenant farmer, has drawn a lucky number in the French Army draft lottery. He will be exempt from a five-year period of military service. But he ...