One stormy evening in 1829, the aging writer René de Chateaubriand, takes refuge in a mountain retreat at Cauterets, a small town in the Pyrenees. Here, he meets Léontine de Villeneuve, an aristocratic woman forty years his junior, who ignites his passion and who seems to be as equally attracted...
How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they will invent a solution to the endemic misery of their city.
On two isolated farms in Ariège, two families opposed by ancestral enmities live next door. Obviously and according to those around them, without this old antagonism, Noël and Juliette would have formed a solid couple for a long time. It's a sort of "Romeo and Juliet" in the peasant world.
