During World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.