Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier...
as 'La Pieuvre'
as Olive
as Marquise de Clérambault
as Sylvain Brassard
as Bishop
as Colonel
as Louis
as Marquis de Clérambault
as Jean
as Alberte