In the Quercy region of France, Marie-Paule Nadal inherits her father's old farm property. But times are hard and the land is not very profitable. Unscrupulous neighbors are looking for any means to recover these 30 hectares: marry Marie-Paule, offer her a meager profit... But Marie-Paule's heart is set on Pierre, a farmer to whom everything succeeds. But neither of them wants to abandon the land of their ancestors...
Gilberte
Michel left Marseilles to Italy when he was twenty years old. Courageous and active, he has succeeded in the construction industry. Thirty years later, his return to Marseilles, for his aunt's burial will abruptly change the life of all of his family, who was first fascinated by his social success. He is regarded as the son who made it like wonder. Michel is the only one who has emigrated. They have all remained in the home country ("le pays") and their social status has hardly changed: workmen, small employees, craftsmen, all living in a modest framework.
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
Mére de Lucien
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial Lacombe, un joven campesino cuyo padre está prisionero en Alemania y cuya madre se acuesta con su jefe, intenta ingresar en la Resistencia. Rechazado por el cabecilla local, ingresa por azar en la policía alemana. Con una capacidad asombrosa para amoldarse a lo que su nuevo puesto le exige, su vida cambia cuando se enamora de France, la hija de un sastre judío.
Madame Pascal
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only will he be separated from his faithful companion, but he is well aware too that the arenas of Arles mean death for Ulysse. Being unable to stand such injustice, Antonin runs away from the farm in the company of Ulysse. Together, they go through the Lubéron, the Baux de Provence, the Alpilles, the Crau and the Vaccarès. Yet, their journey is no pleasure cruise, specially when it comes to crossing National Road 7. After a visit to Marcellin, an old friend of his, Antonin sets off again with Ulysse, this time towards the Rhône River.
